ASSAM RIFLES

About: 

• Background: Assam rifles is India’s oldest paramilitary force, raised originally in 1835 as Cachar Levy. 
  
  
• Role: It’s two primary roles are conducting counter-insurgency operations in the Northeast and guarding the Indo-Myanmar border (as per the government policy ‘one border one force’). 
  
  
• Also known as: Sentinels of the Northeast. 
  
  
• HQ: Laitkor (Shillong). 
  
  
• Motto: Friends of the Hill People. 
  
  
• Parent bodies: While Assam Rifles functions under the Ministry of Defence, its administrative control is under the Ministry of Home Affairs.