(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) In Depth: INS Viraat

Topic: INS Viraat

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More than two years after aircraft carrier INS Viraat was decommissioned, it will finally be scrapped.

The Narendra Modi govt informed Parliament that it has decided to sell INS Virat for scrap...

This comes even as efforts to keep it intact by converting it into a museum or other means have not been successful.

MoS Defence Shripad Yesso Naik, said that while the govt received many proposals for the ‘Grand Old Lady’ of the Indian Navy, none was considered good enough.

There had been demands from various quarters not to let Viraat go the way of Vikrant, India’s first carrier that was eventually scrapped.

In 2018, the Maharashtra Cabinet approved a proposal to convert the carrier into a museum and hospitality centre on a public-private partnership basis, but there were no takers.

The Viraat, served in the Indian Navy for 30 years.