Col NN Bhatia (Retd)

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Col NN Bhatia (Retd), besides being a combat military veteran is perhaps the only freelance consultant in Industrial Security. He has audited large numbers of core strategic industries in both private and public sectors such as Aeronautics, Airports, Banks, Defence, DRDOs, Mints, Nuclear Energy, Oil, Power, Ports, Prasar Bharti (AIR & Doordarshan Kendras) Railways, Refineries, Space, Ship Building, Telecom & various vital Research Centres & Laboratories and conducted numerous Industrial Security & Disaster Management Training Programs, Seminars, Workshops & Exhibitions & interacted with numerous Ministries, Departments & NGOs and undertaken Industrial Security Audits, Reviews, Training & Advice in Disaster Management & handling of IEDs & Explosives. He has vast experience in the management of the Human Resources, Training & Development, Liaison, Fire Fighting, Logistics, Equipment & Material Management, Strategic Decision-Making Process, clearance of Maps & Aerial Photography (GIS), Explosives handling, Industrial Security & Disaster Management. He is physically, mentally and attitudinally sound having good communication skills to undertake Industrial Security Consultancy, IED handling, Coordination & Liaison Assignments to add to the productivity of the Organisation. He can also organise discreet customised intelligence gathering & surveillance operations on a turnkey basis for his clients. He is a prolific writer written numerous articles on industrial security, national and geostrategic security issues and 5 books- KUMAONI Nostalgia, Industrial and Infrastructure Security in 2 volumes, Soldier Mountaineer (biography of international mountaineer Col Narender Kumar 'Bull' and Reminiscing Battle of Rezang La. *Views are personal.

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Warrior, Scholar, and Gentleman: Late Major Prem Nath Bhatia’s Legacy in the KUMAON Regiment

Modern, well-educated, liberal, and of moderate financial means, my parents were profoundly impacted by the Arya Samaj movement in the undivided Punjab. On December...

Ranikhet Reunion 2023: A Mix of Tradition, Friendship, and Modern Changes

I first time visited Ranikhet in 1958, as my late brother Capt PN Bhatia (later Maj and VrC of 1962 Sino-Indian War) was posted...

From Battles to Ballads: Siachen’s Heroic Story in Verse

On 30 Oct 2023, I was pleasantly surprised when I was gifted the Coffee Table Book titled 'Siachen Calling' by the Regiment's very own...

Nature’s Free Clinic, A Glimpse of Simpler Times in Rural India

Like millions of others, our family suffered the holocaust of partition, arriving from ancestral homes that became West Pakistan on the eve of 14/15...

Hamid Ansari and Seema Haider – Love has no Border, and so has Spying

One wintry night in Dec 2017, around midnight, while I was fast asleep, my mobile rang, and there was a call from an unknown...

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Beyond Sindoor: Pakistan’s Proxy Doctrine, India’s Evolving Retaliation, and the Airpower Equation

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