Moreover, India has also launched the over Rs 60,000-crore plan to construct six indigenous SSNs, which was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security in early-2015, as was first reported by TOI. "It (the SSN project) has kicked off. "It's rather odd for submarines to be deployed for anti-piracy patrols. But if Chinese warships come there, we will have to look at ways to mitigate," he said. China, of course, has already opened its first off-shore military base in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa as part of its expanding presence in the IOR.

Source: Times of India December 01, 2017 14:45 UTC