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India's plan to strengthen security after Mumbai's terror attacks

By Jianggan Li | 16 December 2008

India’s chief law enforcement official has announced plans to re-structure India’s security infrastructure after last month’s Mumbai’s terror attacks. Home Minister P. Chidambaram said that South Asia is in “the eye of the storm of terror” and that after the Mumbai attack, it was not possible for India to “go back to business as usual”.

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The revamp is said to boost coastal security, setting up a national investigative agency comparable to the FBI in the United States and strengthening anti-terror laws. “We will strain every nerve to defend our borders,” Chidambaram said.

He also added that, India would create a Coastal Command to secure 4650 miles of shoreline, set up 20 counter-terror schools, raise regional commando units, strengthen anti-terror laws and set up a national agency to investigate suspected terror activity.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh commented that “the idea of India as a functioning democracy and plurastic society is at stake and the nation will give a fitting rebuff to our enemies”.