Sukhoi unit in Nagpur

Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh promised to take up the issue of setting-up of Sukhoi’s civilian aircraft manufacturing unit at Nagpur during his visit to New Delhi on October 13.

Deshmukh said that during the visit, he will meet the officials. He, however, did not had details about them and refused to comment further. Interestingly, even the Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel had pleaded total ignorance about any such development during his recent visit to Nagpur. Union Minister of State for New Energy Vilas Muttemwar had declared that Sukhoi was interested in setting their plant at Nagpur to manufacture 70 to 90 seater civilian aircraft at the cost of 2 billion Euro

~ by nagpurestate on October 7, 2008.