CISF Raising Day
The Central Industrial Security Force (C.I.S.F) (established in its present form: 15 June 1983) is a Central Armed Police Force in India.
It was set up under an Act of the Parliament of India on 10 March 1969 with a strength of 2,800. CISF was subsequently made an armed force of the Union of India
by another Act of Parliament passed on 15 June 1983. Its current
strength is 165,000. The strength will be raised to 200,000 over the
next 2–3 years. CISF is the largest industrial security force in the
world.[2]
It is directly under the federal Ministry of Home Affairs and its headquarters are at New Delhi.
The CISF provides security cover to 300 industrial units and other
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, fertilliser
units, airports and hydroelectric/thermal power plants owned and
controlled by Central 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 organisation within the Indian government. The consulting wing has
amongst its clients some of the renowned business houses and
organisations of India including TISCO, Jamshedpur; SEBI Hqrs. Mumbai;
Vidhana Sabha, Bangalore; Orissa Mining Co., Bhubaneswar; AP Assembly,
Hyderabad; Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corp.; HIL Kerala;IB Thermal
plant,Odisa; IARI, Delhi; NBRI, Lucknow and Electronics City,
Bangalore. The scope of CISF's consulting practice includes security
consulting and fire protection consulting.
CISF is just a unique organization in paramilitary forces for India,
which works for sea ways, airways and some of the major installations in
India. In CISF there are some reserved battalions which works with the
state police to protect law and orders. CISF plays a major role in
Disaster Management, for Disaster Management course the personnel are
trained from NISA, Hyderabad. Another unique thing which CISF is having
i.e., Fire Wing which helps during fire accidents in Industries where
CISF is guarding.
Raising and charter
It was set up under an act of the Parliament of India
on 10 March 1969 with a strength of around 2,800 personnel and as the
name suggests, it was created for the better protection and security of
industrial undertakings in the country. There was a limitation though,
that industries to be provided protection should be wholly owned by the
central government, which has since been modified so that the industries
can now be a joint venture with the central government. However the
role of CISF has undergone a diversification and it now also protects airports, seaports, metro rail networks, government buildings, heritage monuments (including the Taj Mahal), opium and alkaloids extractions, nuclear power plants, and space installations. It also specialises in VIP security as well as disaster management.
