Govt unlikely to provide CISF cover to all pvt cos

The government is likely to provide CISF security only to a selective private firms, as the number of those seeking the paramilitary cover continues to grow.

Official sources said a large number of private firms have sought CISF security cover but most are outside the priority list prepared by the government.

While the government has earmarked about 33 private establishments to be given security cover on a priority basis including Reliance refinery at Jamnagar, Wipro among others, the current list of those seeking the elite CISF protection is 107.

The list of 107 includes five-star hotels and even schools besides certain firms whose installations are tough to be provided security purely because of logistics, like the 250 km long pipeline of Essar Steel running through naxal hit Chhattisgarh into Andhra Pradesh, sources said.

"Information Technology, Power and Oil sector are the three priority sector. Our effort is to provide them security first," a source said.

While CISF personnel are already providing security to Infosys Bangalore and the Electronic City, the government has earmarked a unit for the Infosys office in Mysore.