Expert trainers from the National Security Guards (NSG) Training Centre from Manesar in Haryana and the Chhattisgarh Police would be busy for the next 25 days training State’s constables and sub-inspectors in defusing and disposing lethal Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by insurgents in the left Wing Extremism (lWE) districts of Chhattisgarh.
The 25-day ‘Bomb Disposal Training Course’ began here at Mana-based IED School of Chhattisgarh Police on Monday.
Around 40 police personnel, including constables and sub-inspectors are taking part in the course being organized by the National Security Guard (NSG).
Under this course, instructors from NSG along with experts in the Chhattisgarh police will be giving detailed information about different types of IEDs, way these IEDs are planted by insurgents in insurgency-hit districts besides teaching them the technique of defusing bombs and disposing them of besides other facts linked with the nature of these lethal bombs.
The course commenced here in the presence of Additional Director General of Police (Naxal operation) R K Vij, IG (Naxal-operation) Deepanshu Kabra, DIG (Naxal-operation) Anand Chabra, AIG (Naxal-operation) Devnath, Captain (NSG Training Centre, Manesar Haryana) Vikas Kumar and other senior officials.
It may be recalled that in during the last few days, security personnel managed to avert several untoward incidents in insurgency-hit districts by unearthing IEDs planted by ultras whereas in some incidents, troopers suffered severe injuries in blasts.
Notably, a team of Border Security Force (BSF) and District Force (DF) unearthed two IEDs in insurgency-hit Kanker district on October 3, an IED weighing around 15 kg was unearthed by District Reserve Guard (DRG) in Dantewada on September 22 while in one of the biggest recovery till date, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel unearthed IED weighing around 40 kg in Narayanpur district on September 21.
Notably, a CRPF constable was injured in blast of IED on October 3 in Sukma and a trooper belonging to 206th battalion of Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA)-a special unit of CRPF was injured in an IED blast on September 24 in Sukma district of Bastar.