September 08, 2008

CIL CCL to deployed CISF personnel around its mines

Ranchi Express reported that CIL’s Central Coalfields Limited will induct the Central Industrial Security Force in North Karanpura and Piparwar area in Jharkhand in a bid to bolster security in and around its mines. The new security set up will cost the CCL INR 40 crore annually.

Initially, the CISF will be inducted from January 2008 in the two areas for which infrastructural arrangements are almost complete. On its part, the CISF too has initiated the process of posting some officers from December 2007.

A senior officer of CCL said that the management has paid INR 4 crore to the CISF initially. In the first stage, 400 CISF personnel would be inducted. As per CCL's plans, altogether 1212 personnel of CISF would be deployed in the 2 mining areas.