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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Made-in-India Scorpenes to debut soon

Scorpene class submarineIndia's gigantic Rs 18,798-crore project to construct six French Scorpene submarines at Mazgaon Docks Ltd (MDL) in Mumbai will finally kick off this week after over a year of preparatory work.

The "steel-cutting" for the Scorpene project at MDL is likely to take place on December 15, with defence minister A K Antony presiding over the ceremony.

"Over the last one year, the MDL infrastructure has been upgraded to handle the submarine construction, along with proper training of personnel. Now, the work will actually begin on fabricating the submarine hull. The six submarines will be delivered, one per year, between 2012 and 2017,"said a senior official.

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