April 04
The National Security Guards (NSG) has approached the home ministry and top national security planners for permission to send its troops to Kashmir to fight Militancy.
They have approached the Ministry to support of Anti-Militancy operations conducted by the army and other Government forces in Jammu Kashmir.
North Block officials confirmed that NSG is doing this in order to maintain its cutting edge as well as acquire much-needed on-field operational experience for its experts.
The proposal comes in the wake of Government forces losing troopers in high-risk house intervention operations, used to neutralize holed up Militants or fidayeens (suicide attackers) in densely populated localities of the valley.
In the recent encounters and Fidayeen attack in 2018, Government Forces have been losing men constantly; in Shopian 3 persons were killed.
The rate of firing is often such that the structure collapses or catches fire with the holed up terrorists being collateral damage.
The Modi government is considering NSG’s proposal positively.
A similar offer has been made by NSG to CRPF.