After Mumbai, Chennai gets NSG hub

Special forces of the army will be used to set up anti-terror hubs in Bangalore and Jodhpur, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said. "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.

Special forces of the army will be used to set up anti-terror hubs in Bangalore and Jodhpur, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said.

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Inaugurating the second National Security Guard hub here, 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 here.

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.

Referring to the November Mumbai terror attacks 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 yesterday, 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.