Mumbai:
To enhance the coastal security cover the Union Home ministry is going to kick-start a project of installing radar sensors along the coastline that will detect any incoming threat from the sea route.
In the Rs350-crore project, sensors will be installed to keep a check on the 7,517-km long coastline of the country.
Mumbai will play a very important role in keeping an eye on the sea through these radar sensors for entire western India. The Remote Operational Station (ROS) for the western region which consists of states such as Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Lakshadweep islands will be set up at the ICG headquarters in Mumbai. The information feed collected from the radar sensors in these states will be sent to their Remote Operation Centres (ROC) from where it will be sent to the ROS in Mumbai.
At Mumbai, the ROS will share the information with other regions' ROS and apex headquarters.
The sensors will be installed at few selected and marked lighthouses, which are located on the state's coastline of the state and also on lighthouses on the coastline of other states and islands in the country.
The overall responsibility of coastal security has been given to Navy along with the Indian Coast Guard (ICG).
The ROC will be located at the ICG west region headquarters in Worli.
A senior ICG officer said, "Once the installation is complete and ROC becomes operational, our officials will be manning it and keeping a check round the clock on the information provided by the sensors. The sensor will be able to detect objects to a distance of around 15 to 20 nautical miles."
According to sources, there are around 45 locations on the coastline where these radars will be installed. They will work on frequency modulated continuous wave technology and will work even in the most extreme weather conditions. The complete installation process and period that is to be taken to make it operational would take around six to eight months.
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