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Maritime terrorism is a big threat with huge economic implications and the government is carrying out a security audit of all major and non major ports to identify vulnerable points in coastal security, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said.
“The vulnerability of our coasts was exposed in 1993 when explosives were smuggled to Raigad and then in 2008 when terrorists attacked Mumbai,” Rajnath said. “We need to make our coastal security fool proof and impregnable.”
On coastal security after the deadly 26/11 attacks, many initiatives have been taken to strengthen our coastal security post 2008 attacks on Mumbai.
“We are securing the Indian coastline by creating a chain of Radars and Automatic Identification System (AIS) receivers,” he said.
Referring to Coastal Security Scheme (CSS), the Home Minister said, “After the success of CSS 1 and 2 we are preparing concept paper for CSS 3. “To identify vulnerable points in our coastal security we are carrying out security audits of all major and non major ports.”
Indian Coastguard is working to integrate the fisherman community through Community Interaction Programme, he said.
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