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I could not contact police chief for 15 minutes: Maharashtra CM
IANS
The Times of India
July 15, 2011, 3.45 pm IST
Mumbai - Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said on Friday
that he could not reach top police officers for about 15 minutes
after Wednesday's triple bombings due to a "shocking and
unacceptable" communication breakdown.
In interviews to national TV networks, Chavan said mobile
communication had completely collapsed within minutes of the terror
strikes on Wednesday evening.
"There was complete communication breakdown in first 15 minutes. It
was shocking and unacceptable, it unnerved me. Mobile network was
jammed," said Chavan in a TV interview.
In another interview, the chief minister said: "I could not contact
chief of police, DGP for 15 minutes."
He said that it was a "very serious" issue and the lacunae needed to
be plugged.
The government, he said, was thinking of getting satellite phones or
dedicated mobile network for such emergency situations.
"We need dedicated apparatus for emergency communication, better
ambulances, better road maps and people too should be educated on
what to do in an emergency situation," he said.
Chavan also spoke about the need to have state-of-the-art equipment
to deal with such situations.
"Procurement of equipment is a problem. I have raised this issue with
the PM ( Manmohan Singh) and home minister (P. Chidambaram). But
technology keeps on changing, you buy something and then it gets
dated. Almost 5,000 CCTVS were meant to be bought for Mumbai, which
did not happen. I will see to it that this will happen and it is
expedited," he said.
He, however, denied that the emergency medical responses in India
were lagging. "Just a few minutes after the information reached
officials, several ambulances from concerned hospitals moved out.
They reached the spot within some time, though it took time to take
the injured as some spots were overcrowded."
There were both private and public hospitals for the help and all of
them responded "marvellously", he added.
Chavan also disclosed that 12 teams have been formed to probe the
terror attack that killed 17 people and injured 131.
The chief minister said the possibility of the involvement of the
underworld and Left-wing extremists in the worst terror attack after
the November 2008 strike was also being looked at.
Asked about the possibility of a suicide bomber in one of the
bombings, Chavan replied: "I'll not dwell greatly into the
investigation but what is clear is that ammonium nitrate was used.
"It was electronically planted and if it is so then it has a circuit
which denies the possibility of a suicide bomber. It is not logical
to have electronic timer and a suicide bomber."
However, he added, that the male body on which an electric circuit
was found and another with severed head might have been too close to
the impact of the explosion.
He said that investigators have been directed to look at even the
most remote possibility.
"Several teams have been created including the (Anti-Terrorism Squad)
ATS, (National Investigation Agency) NIA, (National Security Guard)
NSG and also the crime branch which cracked the Dey murder case," the
chief minister said.
He said forensic investigators had collected all the required
samples, including blood samples and explosives substances.
He further added that the investigators were examining the voluminous
CCTV footages recorded but it wasn't of much help so far because "the
places were overcrowded and it was raining very hard (when the bombs
exploded)".
Without naming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he said he was
"upset" over the government being criticised for its alleged laxity
in fighting the terror.
"I was very upset that one of the political parties tried to
politicise the issue. They have a right to criticise but there is a
time and a place."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Worried-over-collapse-of-mobile-network-after-blasts-Maharashtra-mulls-satellite-phones/articleshow/9234959.cms
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I could not contact police chief for 15 minutes: Maharashtra CM
IANS
The Times of India
July 15, 2011, 3.45 pm IST
Mumbai - Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said on Friday
that he could not reach top police officers for about 15 minutes
after Wednesday's triple bombings due to a "shocking and
unacceptable" communication breakdown.
In interviews to national TV networks, Chavan said mobile
communication had completely collapsed within minutes of the terror
strikes on Wednesday evening.
"There was complete communication breakdown in first 15 minutes. It
was shocking and unacceptable, it unnerved me. Mobile network was
jammed," said Chavan in a TV interview.
In another interview, the chief minister said: "I could not contact
chief of police, DGP for 15 minutes."
He said that it was a "very serious" issue and the lacunae needed to
be plugged.
The government, he said, was thinking of getting satellite phones or
dedicated mobile network for such emergency situations.
"We need dedicated apparatus for emergency communication, better
ambulances, better road maps and people too should be educated on
what to do in an emergency situation," he said.
Chavan also spoke about the need to have state-of-the-art equipment
to deal with such situations.
"Procurement of equipment is a problem. I have raised this issue with
the PM ( Manmohan Singh) and home minister (P. Chidambaram). But
technology keeps on changing, you buy something and then it gets
dated. Almost 5,000 CCTVS were meant to be bought for Mumbai, which
did not happen. I will see to it that this will happen and it is
expedited," he said.
He, however, denied that the emergency medical responses in India
were lagging. "Just a few minutes after the information reached
officials, several ambulances from concerned hospitals moved out.
They reached the spot within some time, though it took time to take
the injured as some spots were overcrowded."
There were both private and public hospitals for the help and all of
them responded "marvellously", he added.
Chavan also disclosed that 12 teams have been formed to probe the
terror attack that killed 17 people and injured 131.
The chief minister said the possibility of the involvement of the
underworld and Left-wing extremists in the worst terror attack after
the November 2008 strike was also being looked at.
Asked about the possibility of a suicide bomber in one of the
bombings, Chavan replied: "I'll not dwell greatly into the
investigation but what is clear is that ammonium nitrate was used.
"It was electronically planted and if it is so then it has a circuit
which denies the possibility of a suicide bomber. It is not logical
to have electronic timer and a suicide bomber."
However, he added, that the male body on which an electric circuit
was found and another with severed head might have been too close to
the impact of the explosion.
He said that investigators have been directed to look at even the
most remote possibility.
"Several teams have been created including the (Anti-Terrorism Squad)
ATS, (National Investigation Agency) NIA, (National Security Guard)
NSG and also the crime branch which cracked the Dey murder case," the
chief minister said.
He said forensic investigators had collected all the required
samples, including blood samples and explosives substances.
He further added that the investigators were examining the voluminous
CCTV footages recorded but it wasn't of much help so far because "the
places were overcrowded and it was raining very hard (when the bombs
exploded)".
Without naming the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he said he was
"upset" over the government being criticised for its alleged laxity
in fighting the terror.
"I was very upset that one of the political parties tried to
politicise the issue. They have a right to criticise but there is a
time and a place."
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Worried-over-collapse-of-mobile-network-after-blasts-Maharashtra-mulls-satellite-phones/articleshow/9234959.cms
End of forwarded message from G. A.
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational
purposes of research and open discussion. The contents of this post may not
have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the
poster. The contents are protected by copyright law and the exemption for
fair use of copyrighted works.
o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely not be read,
considered or answered if it does not contain your full legal name, current
e-mail and postal addresses, and live-voice telephone number.
o Posted for information and discussion. Views expressed by others are
not necessarily those of the poster who may or may not have read the article.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted material the use of
which may or may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright
owner. This material is being made available in efforts to advance the
understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic,
democratic, scientific, social, and cultural, etc., issues. It is believed
that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as
provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title
17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without
profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included
information for research, comment, discussion and educational purposes by
subscribing to USENET newsgroups or visiting web sites. For more information
go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this article for purposes of
your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the
copyright owner.
Since newsgroup posts are being removed
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this post may be reposted several times.