She was designed and manufactured by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE),[7][8] launched on 19 April 2010, as part of Project 28, approved in 2003.

[9] She has enhanced stealth features such as an X Form Hull and inclined sides for low radar cross-section, infrared suppression, and acoustic quieting systems.

[10] She is the first Indian Navy ship to be built with carbon fiber reinforced plastic which reduces weight and life cycle maintenance costs.

It will have a complement of about 180 sailors and 15 officers excluding flight crew for the integral ASW helicopter and an endurance of 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi).

[12][13] The sensors of this warship include the advanced bow mounted sonar and the indigenous 3D-CAR air-surveillance radar Revathi with capability to detect targets exceeding 200 km (120 mi).

[8][11] Like INS Kolkata, this warship is also commissioned without the critical medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) and advanced light towed array sonars (ALTAS), which is planned to be added later.

On 12 July, the front line warship was formally handed over by GRSE chairman and managing director Rear Admiral A. K. Verma (Retd.)