India is better prepared and better organised since 26/11, Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba said on Sunday.
“We have come a long way since then,” he said in an interview on the eve of the 10th anniversary of 26/11.
The Navy Chief said there has been a paradigm shift in coastal security as vulnerabilities and risks were fixed, and a layered maritime surveillance and security architecture was put in place, making the coastline almost impregnable.
“The country is now better prepared and better organised,” Adm. Lanba said, when asked about possibility of terrorists taking the sea route again to mount a similar attack on India.
He said the the Navy is now a potent multi-dimensional force, safeguarding India’s interests in the seas and that it is fully prepared to deal with any security challenge facing the country in the maritime domain.
Adm. Lanba, who is also chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee, said critical gaps and vulnerabilities in the country’s coastal infrastructure have been addressed, and that a robust surveillance network comprising 42 radar stations linked to a control centre headquartered Gurugram has been put in place.
“We now have a multi-layered security architecture for coastal security, involving the Coast Guard and the Navy,” he said.
