CENTRAL INDUSTRIAL SECURITY FORCES (CISF)

About: 

• The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is a Central Armed Police Force in India.
  
  
• Established in: 1983. 
  
  
• Parent Body: Union Ministry of Home Affairs. 
  
  
• Headquarters: New Delhi. 
  
  
• Director-general: The CISF is headed by an Indian Police Service officer with the rank of Director-General. 
  
  
• Mandate: 
  • The CISF provides security cover to government infrastructure projects, buildings and industrial units like atomic power plants, space installations, mines, oil fields and refineries, major ports etc. controlled by Central Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs). 
    
    
  • The CISF (Amendment) Act, 2009 authorised the provision of CISF security to private and cooperative establishments across the country for a fee. It also provides for deployment of CISF to protect Indian missions abroad and its participation in the UN peacekeeping operations. 
    
    
  • CISF also plays a major role in Disaster Management and dealing with fire accidents. 
    
    
  
  
  
• Special Security Group (SSG): In 2006, CISF raised a special unit called Special Security Group (SSG) to provide security cover to persons nominated by the Home Ministry.