New Delhi, July 01: Home Minister P Chidambaram said intelligence agencies have indicated a terror threat to the country’s west coast on Wednesday.
“There is an intelligence input (and) as is the practice established recently, we share all inputs immediately with the state governments concerned,” Chidambaram said.
“There is an input that there could be a threat to the west coast. We have, therefore, shared it with (the governments of) Gujarat, Goa and Maharashtra. But that does not mean that there is an imminent attack,” he added while inaugurating a regional hub of NSG in Hyderabad.
Earlier, opening a regional hub of NSG in Chennai, the Home Minister said special forces of the Army will be used to set up anti-terror hubs in Bangalore and Jodhpur.
He said setting up of NSG units did not mean there was an increase in terror threat to the country.
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“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 added.
Referring to the Mumbai terror attacks in November during which it took more than 12 hours for NSG to arrive at the sites, Chidamabarm 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.
–Agencies