110 private companies requested for CISF cover'

                About 110 private sector companies across the country have requested for security cover from the Central Industrial Security Force, CISF Director General N R Das said today.

               "Nearly 110 private organisations have applied for getting the CISF security cover including those in the areas of hotel business, education and iron and steel making," a release quoting Das said here.

               The practice to provide security cover of the paramilitary force to private sector companies began after an amendment to the Act related to CISF, following which it has provided security to Bangalore-based Infosys Technologies and later also covered its Mysore campus.

               The CISF is examining to provide security cover to 33 other organisations, Das said at a programme at Barwah near here.

               At present, the paramilitary force is handling security at 290 places in the country including 57 airports.
PTI