Heightened security at Tamil Nadu nuclear installations

Security has been beefed up across Tamil Nadu, especially at the nuclear power stations, ports and airports and at all public facilities in the wake of a nationwide terror alert ahead of Independence Day.

As many as 38 Black Cat commandos of the National Security Guard have been posted to guard the Department of Atomic Energy's Kalpakkam. Security has been stepped at the nuclear power facility in Koodankulam, at Tuticorin port and the rocket fuel facility at Mahendragiri, as also at the Indian Space Research Organisation's Sriharikota launch pads in Andhra Pradesh, 80 km north of Chennai.

The coast guard has beefed up its patrolling along Tamil Nadu's 1,000-km-long coastline. It is to get a new patrol vessel, said Rajendra Singh, regional commander, here Friday. The regional unit of the coast guard has 19 ships, four hovercraft, two interceptor boats, six Dornier aircraft and four helicopters.'All are being kept in a state of maximum alert,' Singh said. 'With more and more refugees from Sri Lanka coming to the Tamil Nadu coast, the coast guard is maintaining a day and night vigil to ensure that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadre do not reach our shores,' he said.

Source: DailyIndia.com