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INS Vikrant again headed for scrapyard

  •   Tue, Dec 03 2013 07:14:37 PM

Mumbai, Dec 3 (IANS): The Indian Navy has decided to re-auction the country's first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant after nearly 15 years of futile efforts to convert the decommissioned ship into a permanent museum, a top navy official said Tuesday.

"It is sad. But yes, we have initiated the process to e-auction it after the Maharashtra government communicated to us that they are not in a position to convert her into a permanent museum," Western Naval Command chief Vice-Admiral Shekhar Sinha said here.

The announcement to auction INS Vikrant on an "as is where is basis" came ironically on the eve of the Navy Day celebrations.

Earlier, the carrier was auctioned for Rs.58 million (Rs.5.80 crore) in 1999, but was saved from being condemned to the scrapyard after the intervention of then Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray.
  

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  • Vinayak, Mangalore / Dubai

    Wed, Dec 04 2013

    While INS Vikramaditya has just been inducted into the Indian Navy, we get a very sad news of INS Vikrant is going out of her service. Its very sad to see our defense strength coming down, while we invite trouble from our rivals.

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  • Jude, Mangalore Dubai

    Thu, Dec 05 2013

    Dear Vinayak, Please note that INS Vikrant has been decommissioned and has been out of service since 1997. It was to be scrapped many years ago but then it was decided to convert it into a naval museum. You must be thinking of INS Virat which is still in service and will be decommissioned when a brand new home built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant would be ready and commissioned into the Indian Navy.

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