Mumbai: A few weeks from now, India’s decommissioned Vikrant—the aircraft carrier that played a key role in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war and in the liberation of Bangladesh—will have been completely scrapped.
IB Commercial Pvt Ltd, a ship-breaking company, started the aircraft carrier’s scrapping process five months ago at Darukhana in Mumbai. “It is a matter of few days or weeks that the process will be completed,” said a company supervisor at the site, where scrapping work is going on nearly 24x7.
The company had won the bid to undertake the scrapping of Vikrant and had commenced work on November 20 last year at Mumbai’s ship-breaking yard.
Earlier, the Maharashtra government had accorded approval to convert Vikrant into a modern museum under Built, Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis. After a resolution, the project was implemented by Maharashtra Urban Infrastructure Development Company Ltd.
11/04/15 Deccan Herald
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IB Commercial Pvt Ltd, a ship-breaking company, started the aircraft carrier’s scrapping process five months ago at Darukhana in Mumbai. “It is a matter of few days or weeks that the process will be completed,” said a company supervisor at the site, where scrapping work is going on nearly 24x7.
The company had won the bid to undertake the scrapping of Vikrant and had commenced work on November 20 last year at Mumbai’s ship-breaking yard.
Earlier, the Maharashtra government had accorded approval to convert Vikrant into a modern museum under Built, Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis. After a resolution, the project was implemented by Maharashtra Urban Infrastructure Development Company Ltd.
11/04/15 Deccan Herald
