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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Antony to inaugurate warship design hub today

The 2nd and 3rd (foreground) Project 15A Kolkata Class destroyer being built at Mazagon Docks Ltd, Mumbai.For years India’s warship building community has urged the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to create the infrastructure needed for making India a major global hub for building warships.

Tomorrow, as a first step towards this, Defence Minister A K Antony will lay the foundation stone of the National Institute for Research and Development in Defence Shipbuilding (NIRDESH) at Chaliyam, in Kozhikode district of Kerala.

With the Indian Navy expanding rapidly, the workload on the Directorate of Naval Design (DND) has overwhelmed its tiny establishment.

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