kolkata the government will soon provide explosion suppression blankets to the bomb disposal squads and police stations across the city and state the move is aimed at minimizing risk factors involved while diffusing bombs it may be noted that a bomb disposal expert was killed and two were critically injured in alipurduar on august 30 this year while diffusing an ied the bomb suppression blanket will is designed to be the first response tool in any public area where a suspect parcel is found made of aramid a heat resistant fibre with a heavy duty cordura outer shell the blanket device can be deployed very quickly and can effectively reduce the fragmentation radius of the explosive device the blanket can be used as an initiation of safety measure before the bomb squad can effectively diffuse the bomb the project is a part of the modernization of the police the state government has decided to provide bomb suppression blankets to different police stations of kolkata and other districts as well in the first phase 18 police stations in the state and ten police stations across kolkata will get the are chosen for the this blanket as a part of a modernization project it has been decided that this explosive resistant device will be initially provided to ten police stations of kolkata and later it will be provided to all the police stations in phases in the first phase city police stations like metiabruz garden reach thakurpukur parnasree nadial patuli bansdroni regent park pragati maidan and purba jadavpur will get the blankets a senior officer of kolkata police said the police stations have been selected on the basis of their distance from the police headquarters because once an object is detected it will take time for the bomb disposal squad members to reach the spot so this blanket will be used as an initial security covering the officer added apart from the kolkata police the state government has also decided to provide to these blankets to some police stations of the state particularly in the police stations of the maoist hit districts the state government has decided to purchase blankets because that will help to handle an improvised explosive device more effectively officeronspecial duty modernisation of the state home department barun mullick said however sources in the home department said that in the first phase 18 police stations have been selected for purpose it has been decided that 18 police stations mainly in purulia bankura and west midnapore will get this explosive resistant device a home department official said