REVAMPING OF CISF
LOK SABHA
The Central Industrial
Security Force (CISF) was originally constituted for better protection
and security of Industrial Undertakings owned by the Central Government
and certain other Industrial Undertakings, employees of all such
Undertakings and to provide technical consultancy service to industrial
establishments in private sector and for matters connected therewith.
The Force has also been entrusted with new responsibilities of
providing security to VIPs/VVIPs, security of Government buildings,
Domestic and International Airports and Disaster Management, within
the ambit of the Central Industrial Force Act, 1968, as amended
up to date.
To a question
whether the Government proposes to revamp the working of the CISF,
the Minister of State for Home and Personnel, Shri Harin Pathak
told the Lok Sabha in a written reply that the CISF has recently
been assigned the duties of security of the Indira Gandhi International
Airport and the Red Fort in Delhi. The Force has already taken
over the job.
