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| Terror alert at Kaiga Nuclear plant |
| 2006-05-07 |
| New Delhi, May 7: The Centre has strengthened the security cover for the Kaiga Atomic Power Plant in Karwai district of Karnataka following intelligence warnings about a possible terrorist attack. Talking to this correspondent, a high-ranking official of the Union home ministry said: "There are intelligence inputs that suggest militants may target the Kaiga Atomic Power Plant in Karnataka. The security arrangements for Kaiga have been reviewed and adequate arrangements made to prevent any untoward incident." The official added: "Soon after the terror attack at the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, the Union home ministry decided to provide permanent security cover to the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc), Maharashtra." He said: "Around 400 armed commandos of the Central Industrial Security Force have been deployed at Barc." Specially-trained CISF personnel have also been put on alert at all 22 atomic and space research centres throughout the country. "Around 6,000 armed CISF personnel are already guarding nuclear and atomic research centres in the country. Now they have been instructed to remain extra vigilant," the official said. The CISF has also been instructed to beef up security at all sensitive installations situated in the Northeast. Security has been beefed up at the Guwahati Oil Refinery, at ONGC establishments at Nazira and Jorhat, at the Doyang Hydro Electric Project in Nagaland and the Numli Garh Refinery in Assam. In addition, the Centre has directed the security agencies to strengthen the protective cover at all coalfields in the country. Security has been beefed up at Eastern Coalfields Ltd (Sitalpur, West Bengal), Central Coalfields Ltd (Kargali, Ranchi), Singareni Collieries Ltd (Andhra Pradesh) and Neyveli Lignite Corporation (Chennai). |
| Posted by:john |