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CISF offers consultancy services to private industries

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Those facing threat from Left wing extremism, mafia stand to gain

Some 534 CISF jawans complete training at Kharavela training centre
The personnel are even protecting historical monuments, atomic energy installations etc.

CUTTACK: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has offered to provide security related expertise to private industrial units facing threat from Left-wing extremism, anti-national subversive forces and even from local mafia.

CISF Director-General R.K. Das informed this here on Saturday. He was speaking to newsmen after attending the passing out parade of CISF jawans at Kharavela regional training centre at Mundali on the outskirts of the city.

At least 534 jawans successfully completed their 30 weeks of basic training at the centre that was set up in the State in 2002. After an impressive parade, the jawans gave daredevil display of physical strength, stamina, skill and coordination on the occasion.

“We have now decided to provide security consultancy to private industrial houses facing threats but we cannot deploy the force in these units as the CISF Act doesn’t allow us do so,” Mr. Das said.

Starting from preparing projects to recruitment and training of security personnel, the CISF would provide its expertise to private industrial units, he added.

Laudable record

Mr. Das, a 1970 batch Oriya IPS officer of UP cadre, said that in view of the recent industrial developments in Orissa, the Central force attached a great deal of importance to the State.

“Our forces are guarding some of the industrial units located in naxal-afflicted parts of Orissa, and to the credit of the CISF there has been no incidence of naxal attack in any of these units,” he said, adding that some 70 per cent of the units under the security umbrella of the CISF in the country were totally crime free.

Believed to be the only organised industrial force in the world, the CISF, with its strength of 1.5 lakh personnel, is now providing security to a large number of government and public sector units of the country. Even CISF personnel are deployed in highly vulnerable atomic energy installations, space research organisations, power plants, airports and seaports and historical monuments like Taj Mahal and the Red Fort.

Temple security

When asked about the threat perceptions to the Jagannath temple of Puri, Mr. Das said the CISF could bring the historical monuments of Orissa under its security umbrella provided the Union Home Ministry okayed any such proposal.

“But as of now, there has been no such proposal placed before the Union Home Ministry from the State government,” he added.

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