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| Problematic areas' aroundRameswaram |
| Inspector-General Rajendra Singh, Commander, Coast Guard Region (East), and other officers inspecting areas at Mandapam in Ramanathapuram
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| INDIA
, 14-March-2007
6:17:1 AM |
| A high-level team of Coast Guard and State police officers on Tuesday inspected several `problematic areas' along the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) off Rameswaram and along the coast.
The field meeting studied the routes used by contraband smugglers, fishermen's problems and refugee management issues. It identified landing centres and loopholes in the existing security arrangements and logistics. This follows two high-level meetings in New Delhi and Chennai.
"The Coast Guard along with State and Central Government agencies will take steps to check unlawful activities along the coast off Rameswarm," said Inspector-General Rajendra Singh, Commander, Coast Guard, Eastern region, after the inspections. Jagan Seshadri, Additional Director-General of Police and head of the Coastal Security Group; Nanjil Kumaran, ADGP, Intelligence and Sanjeev Kumar, IG (south), took part in the exercise.
Asked about coordination among security agencies, he said there was good understanding among the Navy, the Customs, the police, the Narcotics Control Bureau, the Intelligence Bureau and other agencies. The coordination had improved over time.
Field meetings such as the one organised by the Coast Guard on Tuesday were intended to help all agencies study closely the ground realities and increase interaction at various levels, said Mr. Singh. A couple of officials who attended the meeting said that the local-level relationship had improved vastly in the recent past, in the context of the volatile situation in Sri Lanka and the consequent flow of refugees across the IMBL.
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