Context
Every year, the Central Industrial Security Force Raising Day is celebrated on March 10.
- CISF was set up in 1969 under the CISF act, 1968 passed in Parliament of India. Since then, the day is celebrated as CISF Raising Day every year.
About Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
- The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is one of the Central Armed Police Forces in India.
- CISF is a unique organisation in the paramilitary forces of India, which works to provide security cover to over 300 industrial units, government infrastructure projects and facilities and establishments located all over India.
- Industrial sectors like atomic power plants, space installations, mines, oil fields and refineries, major ports, heavy engineering, steel plants, barrages, fertiliser units, airports and hydroelectric/thermal power plants owned and controlled by Central Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), and currency note presses.
- It also plays a major role in Disaster Management.
- The CISF has a 'Fire Wing' which helps during fire accidents in Industries where the CISF is on guard.
- CISF is one of six paramilitary forces in India and functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
- Its headquarters is in New Delhi.
Central Armed Police Forces in India
- Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) is the uniformed nomenclature of security forces in India.
- It comes under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
- The CAPFs, also referred to as “Paramilitary Forces”, include the:
- Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF): It has been deployed principally in the two most vexing internal security challenges facing India — the strife in Jammu and Kashmir, and Left-wing extremism in central and eastern India.
- Central Industrial Security Force (CISF): Its job is to monitor the Central Government industrial complexes
- Border Security Force (BSF): BSF guards the Bangladesh and Pakistan borders
- Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB): SSB guards India’s 2,450 km open borders with Nepal and Bhutan
- Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP): ITBP guards the 3,488 km of the India-China border
- Assam Riffles: It monitors the North East international borders and counter the insurgency operations in Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland.
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History
- CISF was set up under an Act of the Parliament of India on 10 March 1969, to provide security cover to industrial units, government infrastructure projects and facilities and establishments located all over India.
- Eventually, it was made an armed force of the Republic of India by another Act of Parliament passed on 15 June 1983.
- The CISF was established under the CISF Act, which has a strength of over 3,000.
- In 2017, the government raised the sanctioned strength of personnel from 145,000 to 180,000.
Significance
- The significance of this day marks the security in the critical, industrial undertakings in the government as well as private sectors.
- CISF guard strategic establishment includes the department of space, department of atomic energy, airports, seaports, Metro and historical monuments.
- It also provides security in private sector units and some important government buildings in Delhi.
