CISF will have more women personnel, says Amit Shah on 53rd Raising Day ceremony
India Today
The Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on the occasion of the 53rd CISF Raising Day, said that there will be special efforts by the government to increase the number of women personnel in the paramilitary force.
The Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Sunday, said that significant efforts will be taken by the government to increase women personnel in the central police force. "We will increase it to take the male-female ratio to at least 80:20," Shah said.
Shah was speaking at the 53rd Raising Day celebrations of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
Praising the work that CISF had done during Covid, the Home minister said that when there were people coming from all parts of the world, CISF would welcome them. He continued to pay his tribute to the officers who had died on duty because of Covid.
"Private guards and private security training can be taken up by CISF," said the minister. However, he said that CISF alone cannot take care of all important units of the country and they should share the task with the private sector.
Shah encouraged a hybrid security model and said that CISF and the private sector can come together to provide effective security to various private industrial and manufacturing sector units.
He also asked the force to prepare a 25-year road map in the next five years so that it could emerge as a "result-oriented" security agency by the time India enters the 100th year of its Independence.
Keeping in view the "increasing" drone threat to industrial units along sea ports and the land border, the minister asked the CISF to collaborate with agencies like the DRDO and Border Security Force to prepare an anti-drone action plan . "CISF is the first responder in the cases so they have to participate," Shah said.
