The Indian authorities have planned the creation of a control room, they revealed while responding to the perceived vulnerability of important communications and data networks in the case of airborne attacks in New Delhi.
They further added that the room could secure data and communication against an attack using WMDs such as nuclear, chemical and biological, according to Russian news agency Sputnik.
India signed Agreement on Deliveries of S-400 Air Defence Systems. Delhi Police identified two locations in New Delhi for the first phase of the initiative.
Sources in Delhi Police say that senior officials and concerned departments are in the process of preparing the initial plan for setting up an underground data control room, which will be submitted for government approval soon.
A senior Delhi Police official commented on the plans to keep India’s communications networks up and running during an attack.
“A recently held security review meeting discussed the necessity of secure data communication networks centre. The underground facility would be based on India’s indigenously developed ‘Reinforced Hardened Shelter’.”
India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) developed this system last year for protection of Indian Armed Forces from nuclear, chemical and biological attacks. The underground control centre would be capable of withstanding any radiation or thermal attack for up to seven days.