- Former servicemen strongly opine to convert ‘INS Vikrant’ a national treasure to a maritime museum, but the SC says the first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant to be scrapped
- Due to financial constraints The Maharashtra government has expressed its inability to preserve the 16000- tone ship to convert it as a maritime museum
- INS Vikrant helped to enforce a naval blockade of East Pakistan — now Bangladesh — during the 1971 war, was decommissioned in 1997
- Activists and former servicemen were regretting the fact that the government cannot take care of this while can spend 200 crores to build the ‘Statue of Unity’ in Gujarat
- INS Vikrant is parked in the graveyard of ships the Darukhana ship-breaking yard, while INS Vikrant could be a strong inspiration for the future
- The Bombay High Court has give a nod for INS Vikrant to be auctioned and rejected the petition to save the vessel to convert it into a museum, while the center said it is difficult to maintain the vessel
- Mumbai-based ship breaking company purchased the vessel for Rs.63 crores from the Indian Navy but the activists are moving to apex court to save it, SC ordered maintenance of status quo
- Former Captain Lawrence Nathaniel, who served two years on the vessel during the 1960s said that the ship is caught between the politicians and scrap syndicate, former service men who recalled the moments that they spent in the ship are also making representations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/whats-in-store-for-ins-vikrant/article6218859.ece