Kolkata too gets NSG hub

The eastern regional hub of the National Security Guard was inaugurated at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on Wednesday. One of the four regional NSG hubs set up in the country after the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai,the eastern hub was the last to be inaugurated. While the other three hubs at Mumbai,Chennai and Hyderabad were inaugurated by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram,the eastern hub was inaugurated by state chief secretary Asok Mohan Chakrabarti after Chidambaram cancelled his trip. Speaking at the inauguration,NSG Director General N P S Aulakh said the Salt Lake campus will be the main base of the elite force till the permanent facility at Badu in Madhyamgram (North 24-Parganas) is ready for use. “We have got the land from the Airports Authority of India at Badu. We expect the work on the Badu facility to be completed by November,” Aulakh said. Presently,250 commandos will be stationed at the stadium. Once the Badu campus is ready,the strength of the NSG will be increased to 5,000.