Goa Govt. forms committee to review security of religious places.

14 Aug.2013: In India, the Goa Government has constituted a state-level security committee to review the security plan of all religious places.The move comes following a direction from the Ministry of Home Affairs – MHA.
The committee to be headed by the Director General of Police (DGP), will review the existing security deployment, type of security, access control system, lighting arrangement, fire fighting equipment, etc.The committee will prepare a detailed report of each temple, church, mosque and place of religious importance and submit it to the MHA. The move comes following the recent attack on the Bodh Gaya temple in Bihar.
Fr. Savio Barreto, Rector of the Bom Jesus Basilica in Goa said that security at specific churches has been taken seriously by the State Government. “We have been asking the police department to evaluate the threat perception at churches and to accordingly make adequate security arrangements” he added.
Source: Ucan