The notification categorising private security guards as “ skilled and highly skilled guards’ by the government is a major milestone for the private security industry. It is major opportunity for the industry, as the higher payout will enable the industry to attract better quality talent. Taking a cue from the notification of 19th January, SECURITY TODAY organised a Round Table Conference at the Sheraton, New Delhi, where leading service providers and end users discussed the ramifications of the government notification. Leading players from the service providers including SIS, Peregrine, NISA, Force Tech, and end users including Security Managers from Pepsico, GAIL, Maruti Suzuki, Apple, Bank of America, Reliance, Punjab National Bank and Concentrix discussed what the notification meant for them.
It was largely felt that while the notification would mean a better life for the majority of private security guards in India, it would not necessarily result in a uniform pay hike for the guards pan India. For over three hours stalwarts from among the service providers including Rituraj Sinha, Major Manjit Rajain, Mandeep Grewal and those from the end users like Harender Bana from Pepsico, SB Tyagi from GAIL and Ravi Bedi from Maruti, Amit Sharma from Bank of America, BK Tyagi from PNB, Shakti Sharma from Reliance, Rajesh Gulia of Apple and Sandeep Dahiya of Concentrix debated on what the notification meant for everyone.
SECURITY TODAY has been in past been pioneering efforts to try and upscale the status of the private security guards. On this occasion, it took the initiative to try and define ramifications of the notification. This notification will play a major role in the future of the manned guarding industry and SECURITY TODAY will continue to work for its structured development. Read all about the Round Table in the March issue of SECURITY TODAY.
