Chennai,July 01: Special forces of the army will be used to set up anti-terror hubs in Bangalore and Jodhpur, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday.
Inaugurating the second National Security Guard hub in Chennai, he said setting up of NSG units did not mean there was an increase in terror threat to the country.
“We are also using special forces of the army. Bangalore hub is by the special forces of the army. I am trying to set up a special forces of the army in Jodhpur and one in Guwahati using the Border security force”, he said.
“Establishing NSG hubs will increase its flexibility and reach and it does not mean that terrorist threat has gone up in the country”, he told reporters.
Asked whether there would be more NSG hubs, he said the four metros of Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata are covered in the first phase.
during which it took more than 12 hours for NSG to arrive from Gurgaon, he said NSG hubs would decrease the response time and would enable it to reach any part of the country quickly in case of any terror threat.
Chennai NSG hub is the second to be inaugurated after the one in Mumbai on Tuesday, six months after the terror strike in the country’s commercial capital.
The NSG hubs in Hyderabad and Kolkata are also slated to be made operational, meeting the July one deadline for setting up four NSG units.
Maintaining that security of people was the foremost concern of any government, Chidambaram said “our government with the aid of the State Government is totally committed to providing security to the people”.
–Agencies