CISF to secure private industries and joint ventures on cost-reimbursement basis
This Bill amends the Central Industrial Security Force Act, 1968 to allow the CISF to provide security to private industrial undertakings and joint ventures, and to deploy personnel outside India. It also updates administrative provisions regarding officer ranks and notice periods for withdrawal.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), the Central Government, private industrial undertakings, joint ventures, and public sector undertakings.
- Defines 'joint venture' as a venture jointly undertaken by the Central or State Government with a private industrial undertaking.
- Defines 'private industrial undertaking' as an industry owned, controlled, or managed by a person other than the Central or State Government or any public sector industrial undertaking.
- Allows the Central Government to appoint a Director-General and other supervisory officers using generic terms instead of specific ranks.
- Extends the scope of CISF duties to include safeguarding joint ventures and private industrial undertakings.
- Permits the deployment of CISF for duties within and outside India.
- Increases the notice period required for the withdrawal of CISF from a public sector undertaking from one month to three months.
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2009-02-19
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Document details
| Official title | The Central Industrial Security Force (Amendment) Bill, 2008 |
| Source body | Parliament of India — Bills (Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha) |
| Reference number | LXXI |
| Status | closed (bill) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Closing date | — |
| Documents | 2 |