The National Disaster Response
Force (NDRF), which has 10
battalions comprising about 15,000
personnel, is going to acquire two
more battalions, NDRF and Civil
Defence Director General Krishna
Chaudhary said here on Sunday.
One battalion would be located in
Haridwar, Uttarakhand and the other
one either at Silchar in Assam or any
other place in the north-east, based
on the vulnerability profile of the
region.
The battalions would get personnel
on deputation from the Sashastra
Seema Bal (SSB), a force guarding
the border with Nepal and Bhutan.
The NDRF now consists of 10
battalions, with three each deputed
by personnel from the Central
Reserve Police Force and the Border
Security Force, and two battalions
each from the Central Industrial
Security Force and the Indo Tibetan
Border Force.
Initially, the NDRF had four
battalions — located here, and in
Kolkata, Pune and Ghaziabad —
trained and equipped to tackle
chemical, biological, radiological
and nuclear (CBRN)
disasters. “Subsequently, we felt the
need for developing CBRN capability
in several other battalions. We have
provided some component to the
other battalions so that there would
be basic CBRN capability in each
battalion,” Mr. Chaudhary informed.
In addition to the rescue work
undertaken by the NDRF in times of
natural disasters, it has responded
to hundreds of emergency situations
and rescued over three lakh persons
since its inception in 2005
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