SPECIAL Forces around the world are elite organisations held in high esteem. These play a vital role in crisis situations such as in anti-terrorist or stealth operation of the kind seen during the taking out of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan’s Abbottabad. In India, however, recognition of and importance to Special Forces has been slow to come by. Seemingly, now, the government appears to be waking up to the necessity of according serious attention to the National Security Guard (NSG), the country’s federal-level special response unit raised to counter terrorists, which had played a vital role in neutralising Pakistani terrorists during the 26/11 attack in Mumbai.
On the 27th raising day of this elite force this weekend, the NSG’s Director General announced plans of strengthening the force with two more units of 1,600 commandos and upgrading the force with more sophisticated weapon systems and other aids. Some of the gadgets are to be provided by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). While the plan is laudable and in keeping with the security situation in the country, the government needs to bear in mind the record of the DRDO which has been high on promises but low on delivery. The government must ensure that it sticks to its plan to augment and upgrade the force. The government has not made much headway in its F-INSAS programme (Futuristic Infantry Soldier As a System) aimed at upgrading Infantry soldiers with similar equipment announced with much fanfare over half-a-decade ago.The NSG is a vital Special Force for the country. In fact, it is the country’s only Special Force equipped and trained to handle a wide range of anti-terrorist operations at close quarters – be it evoking the surrender of terrorists from inside the Golden Temple during Operation Black Thunder-II in May 1988, neutralising a hijacker of an Indian Airlines aircraft at Amritsar airport in 1994, conducting hostage rescue operations in Jammu and Kashmir and from inside a temple in Gujarat, counter-insurgency operations in the mountainous terrain of Doda or, more recently, neutralising Pakistani terrorists in Mumbai. The government must accord the highest priority to this Special Force considering that challenges posed by terrorists have become far more complex and complicated.
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