Indian Paramilitary???

October 2009

More than 150,000 Indian paramilitary troops ready to fight terrorists if they attack IT outsourcing firms. Software exporters have bolstered security due to concerns that militants might target their headquarters as symbols of the country’s economic success and to deter foreign investors. India’s nerve center of the nation’s $60 billion outsourcing industry that runs services from software coding to managing computer networks and call centers are the recent targets of Pakistani and Bangladeshi terrorists. But Indian CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) is waiting for the terror operators. The CISF has 112,000 personnel manning nearly 300 public spaces, and will recruit about 10,000 every year, a CISF spokesman said. The CISF will first consider applications from critical sectors such as software and oil and gas, including Reliance Industries’ Jamnagar refinery complex, the world’s largest. Paramilitary troops in combat fatigues will reassure foreign investors, although some experts say that it will extend the CISF’s manpower resources and that the government should instead better train police and allow more private security firms.