Goa will get next coastal security spruce-up in April when Union home affairs ministry will sanction funds for setting up more police stations.
Goa chief minister Digamber Kamat told reporters yesterday that the Union home minister P Chidambaram has agreed tosanction four coastal police stations in addition to existing three stations to be set up along the state’s coastline.
"The second phase of coastal security will be cleared in April. We have already identified locations to set up these stations," Kamat who returned from Delhi after attending chief ministers’ conference on security said.
The state has also been advised to tie up with neighbouring Maharashtra for its police training. Kamat said that he has already discussed the issue with Maharashtra counterpart and has agreed to extend cooperation.
"We don’t have advanced police training school. So union ministry has asked to upgrade the existing police training school at Valpoi," Kamat said.
Goa will receive much needed experts advice from Maharashtra, which is having advanced police training school. The state, which received bad press for attacks on tourists, has asked for additional 50 police control room vans which are required to strengthen the existing network of vehicles.
Chidambaram has assured that "Goa being a tourist place, the funds for procuring these vans would be provided in next ten days," Kamat said.
"We have moved a proposal of Rs5 crore for the same," he said.
The chief minister reacting to a question denied that the issue of current attack on the tourists in the state figured in the Delhi meeting.
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