Govt sanctions CISF security consultancy for 16 IITs, AIIMS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government has handed over the exercise of conducting a threat assessment and security analysis of all the 16 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Delhi’s premier medical institute AIIMS to the central security force CISF.

The decision has been taken by the Union Home Ministry keeping in mind the vulnerability of these vital institutions and after witnessing the increasing reliance of important service sectors of the country on CISF consultancy to secure their businesses and large workforce against potential security threats like terror attacks and similar breaches, official sources said.

All the 16 IITs located in Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur, Chennai, Kharagpur, Guwahati, Indore, Roorkee, Varanasi, Hyderabad, Jodhpur, Patna, Bhubaneswar, Ropar, Gandhinagar and Mandi and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) campus in Delhi have been brought under the “institutional and uniform” security processes as outlined by the central force which has a centre of excellence in this regard.