Central industrial security force

No Set Found with this ID Why in News? • Recently, the Supreme Court asked the centre to examine creating a dedicated separate wing of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). Why SC need CISF? • To provide security to court complex and judges to check unruly incidents of violence. • If there been deployment of CISF, the Delhi incident would not have taken place. Lawyers and police personnel had clashed at the Tis Hazari Court complexhere in November last year in which a few advocate sustained bullet injuries and several security personnel were also injured. • The bench then issued notice to Bar Council of India (BCI) seeking its reply in two weeks. Central Industrial Security Force (CISF): • The CISF provides security cover to 300 industrial units, government infrastructure projects and facilities and establishments located all over India. • Industrial sectors like atomic power plants, space installations, mints, oil fields and refineries, major ports, heavy engineering, Steel Plants, Barrages, FertiliserUnits, Airports and hydroelectric/thermal Power Plants owned and controlled by Central Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), and currency note presses producing Indian currency are protected by CISF. • It thereby covers installations all over India straddling a variety of terrain and climatic conditions. CISF also provides consultancy services to private industries as well as other organisations within the Indian Government. Other Armed Forces under CAPF: • The Central Arme...

Speaking at an event on the occasion of the 53rd Raising Day celebrations of the CISF in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, Shah said that significant efforts would be made by the government to increase women personnel in the paramilitary force. “We will increase it to take the male-female ratio to at least 80:20,” he said. Shah also said that the role of the 1.64-lakh-personnel-strong force could soon be enhanced by pitching for a “hybrid” security model, which would see CISF training and certifying private security agencies so that they could take over the task of efficiently guarding various kinds of industrial and manufacturing units in the country. “The work of private security agencies is rapidly increasing...We have brought out rules for their functioning. Can the CISF take the responsibility of training these private security agencies?” he asked. He said that there was a need to increase the efficiency of the private security agencies as the CISF alone could not render the task of securing the industrial and manufacturing units. At present, the CISF is in charge of securing 354 units in the government and private sectors, including vital assets such as oil, power, information technology, Delhi Metro, and 65 airports across the country. Shah also urged the force to collaborate actively with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Border Security Force (BSF) to come up with an active counter-drone technology given how there was a drone attack threat ...