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29 Aug

VP Dhankhar to launch MDL’s P-17A stealth frigate ‘Mahendragiri’ on Friday

Mumbai, Aug 29, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar will launch the fourth Stealth Frigate of Project-17 Alpha, ‘Mahendragiri’ being built by the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) on Sep. 1 in Mumbai, an official said here on Tuesday. The fourth and final ship of the Nilgiri Class being constructed by the MDL, the ‘Mahendragiri’ has been designed by the Indian Navy’s Bureau of Naval Design and shall be fitted with advanced state-of-the-art weapons, sensors, communication facilities and other systems. The first ship in the P-17A ‘Nilgiri’ was launched in Sep. 2019 and is expected to go for sea trials around mid-2024, the…

24 Dec

Indigenous Warship building -Marching Towards Self Reliance

India has come a long way since the license production of Leander Class Frigates, and it is a matter of great pride that today we have the capability to design and build any kind of warships including an Aircraft Carrier. It has been an arduous journey beginning with small auxiliary ships to destroyers and stealth frigates, full of learnings in , also full of constraints but the journey has been reasonably successful one. The Corps of constructors ( now known as the Directorate of Naval Architecture ), which was formed in 1954 with 12 officers has now grown to a…

04 Mar

MDL paid interim dividend of Rs. 92.56 crores to Govt.

New Delhi: Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. paid interim dividend of Rs. 92.56 crores to the Govt. of India for the financial year 2020-21. Vice Admiral Narayan Prasad, IN (Retd.), Chairman and Managing Director, MDL today handed over the cheque to the Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh in New Delhi in the presence of Secretary (Defence Production), Raj Kumar and Sanjay Jaju, Additional Secretary (Defence Production) on 03rd March 2020. With this MDL has paid a total dividend of Rs. 138.73 cores to the Govt. of India during the financial year 2020-21 including final dividend of Rs. 46.17 crores for the financial year…

27 Jan

MDL Commences Production of Y-12654, fourth Ship of P17A

Mumbai: MDL commenced production of Y-12654, fourth stealth frigate of Project 17A series on 22 Jan ’20. VAdm S R Sarma, Controller of Warship Production &Acquisition, in presence of VAdm Narayan Prasad, Chairman & Managing Director, MDL and other Senior Officials from MDL & Navy inaugurated the production activities of fourth frigate of P17A at the shipyard. First ship of P17A, Nilgiri was launched by Hon’ble RakshaMantri Shri Rajnath Singh on 28 September 2019. The other two ships in the series are at various stages of production. The P17A class frigates are built using indigenously developed steel,have enhanced stealth featuresand are…

14 Nov

MDL celebrates Children day through CSR initiatives

Mumbai: On the occasion of Children’s Day, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) is undertaking CSR initiatives aimed at children on 14th November 2019. An outdoor fitness centre-cum-children’s park has been set up by MDL at a cost of Rs.3 lakhs at the Zilla Parishad Upper Primary School at Padwal Pada tribal hamlet in Kharade Village. The same was formally inaugurated today by Cmde T V Thomas, Director (Corporate Planning and Personnel), MDL. This school with a strength of 80 children has been modernised and has obtained ISO 9000 Certification with CSR support of MDL under the Model Village Scheme being executed…

15 Nov

Vigilance Awareness Week Organized at MDL

Mumbai: Cmde Rakesh Anand, IN (Retd.), Chairman and Managing Director, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited inaugurated the Vigilance Awareness Week-2018 on 29th October, 2018 by administering pledge to Senior Executives of MDL. He also released In-house vigilance magazine ‘SUCHARITA’- Vol. XXI. Shri Satish Pendharkar, IDAS, CVO/MDL and his team organized a number of events such as Essay Competitions, Slogan, Poster and Online Quiz for MDL employees. Various other Vigilance Awareness competitions like Extempore, Essay and Slogan writing were also organized for school children and college students at Gram Sabha, Anandwan, Chandrapur. One of the eminent speakers, Shri Prateek Goswami, IRSS/Chief Material Manager,…