NSG To Prepare New Age Commandos

The country's elite National Security Guard has embarked on an ambitious project to prepare new-age commandos equipped with high-end weapons to undertake specialised counter-terrorism and counter-hijack operations through land, air and water. 

The force, known as the Black Cats, will churn out close to 2,000 commandos by 2015-16. The NSG commandos will be completely independent to operate in a hostile environment with the help of artificial intelligence gadgets being developed for them indigenously by DRDO and other premier organisations.

Speaking to reporters on the occasion of NSG's Raising Day at Manesar garrison in Gurgaon, NSG DG R K Medhekar said, the National Security Guard is now on the verge of a quantum jump. He said the NSG has set out plans to prepare a modern commando. 

The NSG DG said the new age commando would be able to transmit real-time images of a crucial operation like the one that killed global terrorist Osama bin Laden in Pakistan's Abbottabad early this year.

Mr Medhekar said the government has approved a host of sophisticated weapons and other logistical requirements which include corner-shot weapons and advanced sniper guns. Our correspondent reports, the NSG has created the hubs in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad including a regional centre each in Hyderabad and Kolkata after 26/11 terror strikes.

The NSG chief also said his commandos will have fresh training exchanges with other special forces of the world
including with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the US department of Defense.

Union Minister of State for Home said that the NSG have increased manifold in the current security scenario and the force should be prepared to meet these expectations.