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NEW DELHI, April 2: The Centre is planning to utilize the services of civil defense mechanism force in catastrophe direction trading operations throughout the country. Civil defense mechanism force mainly deployed in about 170 towns in boundary line countries were primarily for readiness against external aggression and were trained to ran into warfare clip challenges. Now, the state of operation of civil defense mechanism military units would increase from urban countries to distant towns of the country, changing its earlier town based attack to territory based approach. The determination was taken today by the place minister's civil defense mechanism advisory commission endorsing the recommendations of the kilometer Singh Committee on "revamping of civil defence". The consultative commission meeting, chaired by the Union place minister, Mister Shivraj Patil, met here today for the first clip to discourse the suggestions made by Mister kilometer Singh. The meeting was also attended by the defense mechanism minister, Mister Type A Kelvin Antony, the vice-chairman of the National Catastrophe Management Authority, Gen (Retd) Normality Degree Centigrade Vij, and the curate of state for home, Multiple Sclerosis Volt Radhika Selvi. Mister kilometer Singh, member National Catastrophe Management Authority, had proposed a new strategy on 'revamping of civil defence' which is to be implemented during the 11th Five twelvemonth Plan at an estimated cost of Rs 100 crore. The commission endorsed the suggestions of the Kelvin Meter Singh Committee to incorporate civil defense mechanism in the catastrophe direction model and transport out the necessary amendment to the Civil Defense Mechanism Act, 1968, for the purpose. All activities pertaining to civil defense mechanism in the state are carried out under the Civil Defense Mechanism Act, 1968 and the ordinances and regulations under the Act. normality SNS