Two hundred Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) commandos will soon be guarding Navi Mumbai based Reliance Corporate IT Park. The CISF received a go ahead from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The IT Park is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). It would be the second Reliance unit to get the CISF security cover after RIL’s refinery in Jamnagar in Gujarat, which has been secured by the force since 2009.
A senior CISF officer said, “While the RIL will have its own guards to protect the perimeter, we will have the quick response teams to ward off any possible terror threat.” The CISF commandos, to be posted at the facility, will be deployed in a Quick Reaction Team (QRT) pattern and will have its own access control room as part of which they will keep a vigil from vantage positions using sophisticated weapons and vehicles for swift movement. The regular entry and exits will be manned by private security guards provided by the ‘client’ company that will also pay for the security cover.
The CISF was tasked to secure private sector entities after the government brought an amendment to its act post the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, which saw terrorists storming into five-star hotels. The force is mandated to secure installations and concerns in the private sector following the attacks. The cover has been very sparingly accorded since then, given the fact that till now only eight such facilities have been sanctioned such a security. Last year, the government had ordered deployment of about 35 CISF personnel to guard Ramdev’s Patanjali Food and Herbal Park Private Limited in Haridwar.
