The drills will test air-raid warning systems and practice crash-blackout measures.
Amid rising tensions with Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack, the Ministry of Home Affairs has mandated security drills across all states and Union Territories on May 7.
The drills, to be held in 244 civil defence districts, aim to prepare against potential security threats.
List Of States And Union Territories Under Mock Drills
Here is a list of the states and Union Territories that will be conducting drills, along with the districts under each:
Andaman & Nicobar Islands
- Port Blair
Andhra Pradesh
- Visakhapatnam
Arunachal Pradesh
- Alog (West Siang)
- Itanagar
- Bomdila
- Tawang
- Hayuling
Assam
- Bongaigaon
- Darrang
- Dibrugarh
- Golaghat
- Dhubri
- Karbi-anglong
- Goalpara
- Jorhat
- Sibsagar
- Tinsukia
- Tezpur
- Digboi
- Diliajan
- Guwahati (Dispur)
- Rangia
- Namrup
- Nazira
- North-Lakshimpur
- Numaligarh
- Kokrajhar
Bihar
- Patna
- Barauni
- Katihar
- Begusarai
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
- Durg (Bhilai)
Dadra (Silvasa) Daman & Diu
Delhi
- Delhi (including New Delhi and Delhi Cantonment)
Goa
- North Goa (Panaji)
- South Goa (Marmagoa with Vasco Dabolim & Harbour)
Gujarat
- Surat
- Vadodara
- Kakrapar
- Bharuch
- Ahmedabad
- Jamnagar
- Bhuj
- Dangs
- Kutch
- Bhavnagar
- Mehsana
- Narmada
- Nalia
- Navsari
- Ankeleswar
- Okha
- Vadinar
Haryana
- Ambala
- Faridabad
- Jhajjar
- Gurgaon
- Hissar
Himachal Pradesh
- Shimla
Jammu & Kashmir
- Pulwama
- Anantnag
- Badgam
- Baramula
- Doda
- Jammu
- Kargil
- Kathua
- Kupwara
- Leh
- Poonch
- Rajauri
- Srinagar
- Udhampur
- Samba
- Akhnoor
- Uri
- Naushera
- Sunderbani
- Awantipur
Jharkhand
- Ranchi
- Bokaro
- Godda
- Sahebganj
- Jamshedpur
Karnataka
- Bengaluru (Urban)
- Malleshwara
- Raichur
Kerala
- Cochin (Kochi)
- Thiruvananthapuram
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
- Bhopal
- Gwalior
- Indore
- Ranchi
Maharashtra
- Mumbai
- Aurangabad
- Raigarh
- Tarapur
- Pune
- Nasik
- Pimpri-Chinchwad
- Ratnagiri
- Sindhudurg
Manipur
- Imphal
- Churachandpur
- Ukhrul
- Moreh
- Ningthou-Khong
Meghalaya
- East Khasi Hill (Shillong)
- Jaintia Hill
Mizoram
Nagaland
- Dimapur
Odisha
- Bhubaneswar
- Gopalpur
- Hirakund
- Paradip
- Rourkela
- Talcher
- Balasore
- Koraput
- Bhadrak
- Dhenkanal
- Jagatsinghpur
- Kendrapara
Puducherry
Punjab
- Ferozepur
- Gurdaspur
- Hosiarpur
- Jalandhar
- Ludhiana
- Patiala
- Pathankot
- Adlampur
- Barnala
- Bhakra-Nangal
- Halwara
- Kothkapur
- Batala
- Mohali (Sasnagar)
- Abohar
- Sangrur
Rajasthan
- Jaipur
- Jaisalmer
- Jodhpur
- Udaipur
- Sikar
- Suratgarh
- Abu Road
- Nasirabad (Ajmer)
- Bhivari
- Rawat-Bhata
- Kota
- Rawatbhata
Sikkim
- Gangtok
Telangan
- Hyderabad
Tripura
- Agartala
Uttar Pradesh
- Agra
- Prayagraj
- Bareilly
- Bagpat
- Bulandshahr
- Ghaziabad
- Gorakhpur
- Jhansi
- Kanpur
- Lucknow
- Mathura
- Meerut
- Moradabad
- Saharanpur
- Varanasi
- Bakshi-Ka-Talab
- Mughalsarai
- Sarsawa
Uttarakhand
- Dehradun
West Bengal
- Coochbehar
- Darjeeling
- Jalpaiguri
- Bardhaman
- Birbhum
- East Medinipur
- Malda
- Siliguri
- Greater Kolkata
- Durgapur
- Howrah
- Haldia
- Hooghly
- Hashimara
- Murshidabad
- Kharagpur
- Burnpur-Asansol
- Farakka-Khejuriaghat
- Chittaranjan
The drills will test air-raid warning systems, practice crash-blackout measures, and camouflage key installations. Civilians will also rehearse evacuation plans. These actions will help ensure everyone knows how to respond quickly during a “hostile attack”, protect vital areas, and safely evacuate if needed.
This is the first time since the 1971 India-Pak war that such drills are being conducted across the country.
