The drive had projected a requirement of getting an all-women reserve battalion.
New Delhi:
A primary-ever all-women CISF reserve battalion comprising greater than 1,000 personnel has been sanctioned by the Union authorities conserving in thoughts the burgeoning duties of the drive at airports and different very important installations.
Officers instructed PTI that the unit might be raised from throughout the sanctioned manpower of the drive of about two lakh personnel.
The Union house ministry issued a sanction order this week approving an unique girls reserve unit within the drive with a complete energy of 1,025 personnel led by a senior commandant-rank officer, they stated.
The Central Industrial Safety Drive (CISF) has 12 reserve battalions below its institution at current.
Because the identify suggests, these items are stored in reserve and used as reinforcement when the drive will get a brand new job like momentary duties of conducting elections and everlasting duties of guarding an set up just like the Parliament Home complicated that got here below CISF cowl this yr, an official stated.
The drive has an enormous girls interface at services just like the 68 civil airports that it guards, the Delhi Metro and historic monuments just like the Taj Mahal and the Pink Fort. The drive had projected a requirement of getting an all-women reserve battalion which has been lately sanctioned, a house ministry official stated.
Other than these installations, the 1969-raised CISF offers a counter-terrorist safety cowl to a lot of services within the nuclear and aerospace area aside from these within the non-public sector just like the Infosys places of work in Bengaluru and Pune, Reliance refinery in Jamnagar (Gujarat), amongst others.
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