Dwarfed by the 200-tonne gantry crane, close to one hundred people from °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ India, the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization, the European Domestic Agency, the contractors who contributed to the building construction, and members of the media attended the inauguration ceremony.
In June 2013, an unusual was held in the southeast corner of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ platform. Coconuts were broken, the meat was shared between the participants, and the blessing of the lord Ganesha (the "Remover-of-obstacles") was called upon this small stretch of bare land—the approximate size of a football field—that had been made available to the Indian Domestic Agency for the construction the .
The symbolic ribbon at the entrance of the Cryostat Workshop was cut by Benoît Moncade, director-general of Spie-Batignolles; Pr. Predhiman Krishan Kaw, Indian delegate to the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Council; M.V. Kotwal, president of Larsen & Toubro's Heavy Engineering Division; and Osamu Motojima, Director-General of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization. Looking on are Dhiraj Bora, director of the Indian Institute of Plasma Research and former °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ DDG and Ganesh Iyer, head of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Project at Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
M.V. Kotwal, the president of Larsen & Toubro's Heavy Engineering Division who had travelled especially from India for the inauguration, stressed the "spirit" that presided over the construction of the building and, more broadly, over the collaboration between his company and the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Project. He also noted that that work was performed without one single accident or injury.