PARA MILITARY FORCES
A paramilitary force is a semi-militarized force whose organisational structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but which is not included as part of a state’s formal armed forces. Though paramilitary is not a military force, it is usually like the military's light infantry force in terms of training, and organisational structure. Paramilitary forces like B&F, which is for border guarding, comes under the Army during war and performs some functions of infantry.
PARAMILITARY FORCES
Indian Paramilitary Forces refer to three organisations that assist the Indian Armed Forces closely and are led by officers of the Indian Army or Indian Navy. However, any law or rules of the Government have not defined them. Earlier, the term ‘paramilitary’ forces was used for eight forces:
Assam Rifles
Special Frontier Force
Indian Coast Guard
Central Reserve Police Force
Border Security Force
Indo-Tibetan Border Police
Central Industrial Security Force
Sashastra Seema Bal
ASSAM RIFLES (AR)
The Assam Rifles is the oldest paramilitary force of India. The unit can trace its lineage back to a paramilitary police force that was formed under the British in 1835 called Cachar Levy. Since then the Assam Rifles have undergone a number of changes in its name the Assam Rifles have undergone a number of changes in its name the Assam Frontier Police (1883), the Assam Military Police (1891) and Eastern Bengal and Assam Military Police (1913), before finally becoming the Assam Rifles in 1917.
Over the course of its history, the Assam Rifles and its predecessor units have served in a number of roles, conflicts and theatres including World War I where they served in Europe and the Middle East, and World War II where they served mainly in Burma. In the post World War II period the Assam Rifles has expanded greatly, as has its role.
There are currently 46 battalions of Assam Rifles with a sanctioned strength of 63,747 personnel. It is under the control of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The officers required for Assam Rifles are provided by the Indian Army. Officers from the Indian Army are selected to serve a deputation duty in the Assam Rifles for a fixed number of years. They perform many roles including the provision of internal security under the control of the army through the conduct of counter insurgency and border security operations, provision of aid to the civil power in times of emergency, and the provision of communications, medical assistance and education in remote areas.
In times of war they can also be used as a combat force to secure rear areas if needed. Since 2002 it has been guarding the Indo-Myanmar barrier as per the government policy of ‘one border-one force’.
BORDER SECURITY FORCE (BSF)
The Border Security Force (BSF) is the primary border guarding force of India. It is one of the six Central Armed Police Forces of the Union of India. It was raised in the wake of the 1965 War 1 December 1965, “ for ensuring the security of the borders of Indian and for matters connected therewith”. It is a Central Armed Police Force charged with guarding India’s land border on western front during peacetime and preventing transnational crime.
It is a Union Government Agency under the administrative control of the Ministry of Home Affairs. The BSF has its own cadre of officers but head, designated as a Director-General (DG), since its raising, has been an officer from the Indian Police Service. It also takes officers from IPS on deputation.
The BSF has grown exponentially from a few battalions in 1965 to m186 battalions with a sanctioned strength of 2,57,363 personnel including an expanding air wing, marine wing, and intelligence units. It currently stands as the world’s largest border guarding force. The BSF has played a major role since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, including Operation Blue Star and Operation Black Thunder. It has also handled Counter Insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir.
CENTRAL INDUSTRIAL SECURITY FORCE (CISF)
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was set up under an Act of the Parliament of India on 10 March 1969 with a strength of 2,800. CISF was subsequently made a para military force of the Republic of India by another Act of Parliament passed on 15 June 1983. Its current active strength is 144,418 personnel. In April 2017, the government raised the sanctioned strength from 145,000 to 180,000 personnel. This force is directly under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and its headquarters is in New Delhi.
The CISF provides security cover to 300 industrial units, government infrastructure projects and facilities and establishments located all over India. Industrial sectors like atomic power plants, space installations, mints, oil fields and refineries, major ports. Heavy engineering, steel plants, barrages, fertiliser units, airports and hydroelectric/thermal power plants owned and controlled by Central Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), and currency note presses producing Indian currency are protected by CISF. It, thereby, covers installations all over Indian straddling a variety of terrain and climatic conditions.
CISF also provides consultancy services to private industries as well as other organisations within the Indian government. The consulting wing has amongst its clients some of the renowned business houses and organisations of India including TISCO, Jamshedpur, SEBI Hqrs. Mumbai; Vidhana Sabha, Bangalore; Orissa Mining Co., Bhubaneswar; Telangana Assembly, Hyderabad; Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corp.; HIL Kerala; IB Thermal plant, Odisha; IARI, Delhi; NBRI, Lucknow and Electronics City, Bangalore.
The scope of CISF’s consulting practice includes security consulting and fire protection consulting.
CISF is a unique organisation in paramilitary forces for India, which works for sea ways, airways and some of the major installations in India. In CISF there are some reserved battalions which work with the state police to protect law and order. CISF plays a major role in Disaster Management, for the Disaster Management course the personnel are trained at NISA, Hyderabad. Another unique thing which the CISF has is a Fire Wing which helps during fire accidents in Industries where CISF is on guard.
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