The first deployment of the Railway’s commando unit Commandos for Railway Safety (CORAS) will be in the Naxal [Left Wing Extremism, LWE]-hit areas of Chhattisgarh, reports The Hindu on August 14. Railway Protection Force (RPF) Director General (DG), Arun Kumar said a new state-of-the-art facility will be built in Jagadhari city in Haryana to train the CORAS commandos. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said he had approved the setting up of the institute and instructed the RPF to provide them with training of international standards. “CORAS’ first deployment will be in Naxal-hit Chhattisgarh. They will also be deployed in areas where railway has major ongoing projects which need security like northeastern States and Jammu and Kashmir,” the DG of the RPF said. The unit is being envisaged as a responder for any situation pertaining to damage, disturbance, disruption of train operations, attack/hostage/hijack, disaster situations in railway areas, the DG added. Comprising RPF and Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF) personnel, the CORAS is headed by the RPF, DG, and is armed with special uniforms with bullet-proof jackets, helmets and sophisticated weapons, DG, Kumar said. He further said there are 14 battalions of the RPSF and one of its battalion had been converted into CORAS. The personnel of CORAS have been trained in the NSG academy and Greyhounds, he said.