Gujarat will have its own National Security Guard (NSG) by October 2010. A team of 100 state reserve police commandos has been sent

for NSG training to Rajasthan.

After the terror attack at Taj, Mumbai, in 2008, Gujarat government had announced the setting up of NSG-like force. Confirming this, inspector general of police (training), Vinod Mall of Karai Police Academy, said, “We have selected 100 people for the training.”

In this connection, the state police authorities had hand-picked 300 state reserve police (SRP) commandos, all below 35 years of age. These commandos were first brought to Karai academy and were put through mental and physical tests.

Out of these, 100 jawans were short-listed. Earlier this month, they were sent to Jodhpur in Rajasthan for commando training, sources said.

“At the Rajasthan police academy, these commandos will be trained like NSG jawans by national experts,” said senior state police officials. The selected jawans include seven officers who are sub-inspectors.

During training, these commandos will be divided into eight groups. “Like in the Mumbai terror attack where the NSG commandos coordinated and flushed out terrorists from Taj and Nariman Point, these officers will be trained in all nuances of terror combat including strategising and execution of plans,” said sources.

Gujarat figures high on terror attack list. “In case there is another terror strike, Gujarat will have its own commandos. We will not need to wait for Centre’s NSG commandos to reach the spot. We wasted precious moments in the Akshardham attack case of 2002 but that won’t be repeated,” said police officials.

Name  :  Narendra Damodardas Modi

Birth Date :  17 September 1950

Birthplace : Vadnagar, Mehsana district

Occupation: Chief Minister

Born In: Gujarat

Biography :-

Narendra Damodardas Modi (Devanagari: नरेंद्र दामोदरदास मोदी) was born on September 17, 1950, Gujarat, India. He became the Chief Minister of Gujarat on October 7, 2001.

He was born in Vadnagar, a town in the northern Mehsana district of Gujarat, to a middle-class Hindu family. As a young man, he joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He became a fulltime worker and organiser for it, and was later nominated by it to be a representative on the Bharatiya Janata Party.

He participated in the rise to political dominance of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat as its elections organiser in the early 1990s, a period which led to its election in 1995. He became Gujarat’s Chief Minister in 2001, promoted to that office when his predecessor Keshubhai Patel resigned, following the defeat of the BJP in by-elections.