RIL ask security from Defence Ministry but rejected

Six years after September 11, with the terror situation as bad as ever, the world can only prepare for deadlier and more spectacular attacks, which may well happen in oil refineries.
At a time when security against terror strikes has become of paramount importance, the Defence Ministry has rejected a proposal from Reliance Petrochemicals to provide special security to its oil refinery in Jamnagar.

To that end, Oil refineries world-wide are now being equipped with anti-aircraft guns and surveillance systems.

Stephen Flynn, of the Washington-based National Security Studies Programme says, “We may be surprised that an oil refinery can pose such a huge threat. Al Qaeda has been acquiring experience in these kinds of attacks in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and sharing the details of constructing improvised explosive devices in Internet chat rooms.”

At such a time, when threat perceptions are rising and the government has admitted that its shoreline is not secure, a request from the Ambani-owned refinery in Jamnagar, on the Gujarat coast, to increase its security measures has been turned down by the Defence Ministry
Sriprakash Jaiswal said, “In our country, we must not have any lapse in any kind of security matters.”


Courtesy:ibnlive.com
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