Amid heightened tensions with Pakistan following the lethal terror assault in Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22, the Ministry of House Affairs (MHA) has ordered to conduct mock drills at 244 areas throughout the nation on Could 7, together with Bengaluru Metropolis, Raichur and Karwar in Karnataka.
Talking to reporters, Prashant Kumar Thakur, who heads the House Guards, Civil Defence and the State Catastrophe Response Power (SDRF), mentioned Bengaluru is a cosmopolitan metropolis with a excessive inhabitants, whereas in Raichur, there’s a thermal energy plant, and Karwar has the Kaiga nuclear energy plant. He mentioned the drills will likely be performed by 4 pm.
Bengaluru, which is named India’s Silicon Valley, homes main IT and biotechnology (BT) industries that contribute a big quantity to the nation’s GDP. Town additionally homes very important establishments together with the Indian Area Analysis Organisation (Isro), Yelahanka Air Power Base, and the Defence Analysis and Growth Organisation (DRDO).
The Kaiga Atomic Energy Station (KAPS), situated close to the Kali River in Uttara Kannada district’s Karwar, is the nation’s third-largest nuclear energy plant. The coastal city additionally homes INS Kadamba, a key naval base.
Raichur Thermal Energy Station, the state’s first, is a coal-fired electrical energy station that accounts for 70 per cent of the full electrical energy generated in Karnataka.
Thakur mentioned the civil defence power was skilled and ready through the 1971 Indo-Pak battle, however later, such actions had come to a halt. “Now, in response to the MHA’s instructions, the civil defence forces will likely be activated. We’ve had conferences with MHA officers through video convention,” he added.
A police officer mentioned the cities of Karnataka fall below class B and the mock drills will likely be completely different from what we might see in states that share borders with Pakistan, China and Bangladesh.
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The mock drill goals to coach civilians and college students to guard themselves within the occasion of a hostile assault, in addition to camouflaging very important installations.
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