Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- India’s top law enforcement official announced an overhaul of the country’s security and intelligence agencies, after the government was criticized for its response to last month’s attack on Mumbai.

The government will create a coastal command for maritime security, fill vacancies in intelligence agencies and set up 20 schools for anti-terrorism officers, Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told Parliament today.

India also plans to set up a national investigative agency and train more commando units, Chidambaram said.

The siege of India’s financial hub left 164 people dead as militants armed with guns and grenades attacked at 13 sites across the city. They managed to hold off security forces at two luxury hotel complexes for almost three days from Nov. 26 and it took federal commandos more than nine hours to arrive in Mumbai from their headquarters in New Delhi.

An Indian judge today extended the detention of Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the surviving attacker, to Dec. 24, giving police more time to investigate the attacks.

The authorities scrapped a plan to take Kasab to court because of security concerns and instead asked a judge to come to the Crime Branch office, Dinesh J. Mota, a lawyer, who was asked to represent the suspect and was present during the hearing, said. Mota said he has refused to defend Kasab.

‘Biggest Menace’

India’s Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the country won’t be provoked by terrorist attacks and cross-border terrorism is the “biggest menace” the country faces.

Indian citizens expect resolute action and the government will patiently confront terrorism, Mukherjee said in an address to Parliament during a debate on the Mumbai attacks.

The attacks were the first to target foreigners in the country and India has sought action against some groups in Pakistan, Mukherjee said.

“The finger of suspicion unmistakably points to the territory of our neighbor, Pakistan,” Chidambaram said. “The origins of the 10 terrorists who entered India have been established conclusively,” Chidambaram said.

A failure of intelligence is being examined, he said.

Four members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani militant group which is allegedly behind the attacks, were placed under sanctions by a United Nations Security Council yesterday.

Zaki ur-Rehman Lakhvi, identified by India as the senior plotter of the attack, and Lashkar’s founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, were among the four men listed for sanctions, including an asset freeze and travel ban, according to the U.S. State Department.

To contact the reporter on this story: Jay Shankar in Bangalore at jshankar1@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: December 11, 2008 03:58 EST