INS Viraat throughout the 2007 Malabar Naval wargames with the US Navy
New Delhi:
In a letter to the Defence Ministry, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has mentioned the Maharashtra authorities is “pleased to cooperate in restoring and preserving the historic ship” INS Viraat, which served as India’s plane provider.
“It was with nice disappointment and concern [that] I learn that the scrapping of the historic INS Viraat has been initiated at Alang in Gujarat,” Ms Chaturvedi mentioned.
The letter, which asks the Defence Ministry for a no-objection certificates to protect Viraat, comes at a time when the decommissioned warship is being pulled ashore by a ship-breaker in Alang earlier than it’s destroyed for scrap.
Envitech, the non-public agency that wishes to amass the warship and convert it right into a maritime museum off Goa, approached the Supreme Courtroom at present after it grew to become obvious the NOC wouldn’t be coming from the Defence Ministry, although the ship had been offered to Shree Ram shipbreakers in Alang for Rs 35.8 crore.
The chairman of Shree Ram shipbreakers, Mukesh Patel, refuses to half with the ship with no authorities NOC.
“If there’s a [government sanctioned] no-objection certificates they usually [Envitech] ship full fee in a single shot, then it’s attainable,” Mukesh Patel instructed NDTV yesterday. The total fee for the ship is anticipated to be within the vary of Rs 110 crore.
Within the letter addressed to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at present, Ms Chaturvedi mentioned, “We as a nation should use our decommissioned naval ships to assist residents to raised perceive the importance of India’s maritime historical past.”
“It saddens me additional to notice that although there may be a proposal to transform the warship right into a maritime museum, it awaits a no-objection certificates from the Ministry of Defence for switch of the warship,” she mentioned.
Priyanka Chaturvedi’s Letter On Navy Warship Viraat by NDTV on Scribd
In a collection of stories, NDTV has highlighted the plight of Viraat, the decommissioned Indian Navy warship which was India’s flagship for a number of many years and got here to outline India’s maritime energy.
Earlier than being commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1986, Viraat served as HMS Hermes within the Royal Navy the place she fought with distinction within the Falkland Islands conflict in 1982 within the south Atlantic.
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