New Delhi: In the five years after the Mumbai carnage in which 10 Pakistani terrorists laid siege to key institutions in India's commercial capital and killed 166 people, many steps have been taken to improve the country's counter-terror apparatus, but much more needs to be done, security experts say.
The country's coastal security is much better and intelligence sharing has improved, but the police-population ratio remains inadequate, intelligence gathering needs to be beefed up and more anti-terror mock drills need to be held across the country, the experts said.
Former Punjab director general of police K.P.S. Gill, who is credited with ending the Punjab militancy of the 1980s, feels that India is better prepared today to handle a terror attack.
"The coastal security is much better and people in different branches of the security system are more alert and sensitive to intelligence inputs," Gill told IANS.
But he said that as a nation, "we have not learnt any lessons".
"It is good to talk about metros, but such things (attacks) can happen even in the countryside," said Gill.
