New Delhi, June 18 -- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will perform the Bhoomi Pujan for the state-of-the-art 10,000-tonne Aluminium Extrusion Press at Yantra India Limited (YIL), Ordnance Factory, Ambajhari in Nagpur, Maharashtra, on June 19.

As per a statement from the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the ceremony will be attended by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis, Secretary (Defence Production) Sanjeev Kumar and other senior officials of the Department of Defence Production as well as YIL.

The proposed extrusion press will be a major national asset for the defence manufacturing sector.

It will strengthen the nation's capability to produce large, high-strength and precision aluminium alloy extrusions to cater to the requ...