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A twelvemonth aft Operation Sindoor, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has trained implicit 7,000 unit successful drone and counter-drone operations, a CISF authoritative said.
The grooming successful conjunction with the Indian Air Force (IAF) was initiated amid the increasing menace from unauthorised Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).
The authoritative said the CISF had been tasked with auditing the information of captious installations specified arsenic atomic powerfulness plants and thermal powerfulness plants among others.
“It is imperative that the CISF unit posted astatine captious installations are alert astir the emerging menace script from UAVs. They should cognize however to place and disable specified flying objects. The grooming is going connected an intensive scale,” said the official.
A barrage of attacks by drones on the Pakistan borderline were thwarted by information forces successful May 2025 aft Operation Sindoor.
So far, the CISF had trained 7,120 unit successful drone and counter-drone operations, which covered piloting the drones, aerial surveillance, mapping, and neutralisation of hostile drones.
The CISF was besides successful the process of establishing dedicated Drone Training Schools successful Hyderabad, Bhilai and Behror, with precocious world programmes planned alongside the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune.
The authoritative added that arsenic modern information threats evolved from accepted carnal breaches to hostile drones and blase cyberattacks, the CISF was executing a multi-domain modernisation drive.
Industrial disasters
While combating panic and cyberthreats, the CISF continued to beryllium a important archetypal responder for concern disasters, the authoritative said. Its dedicated Fire Wing — comprising astir 9,700 unit crossed 23 States — responded to 2,889 occurrence incidents successful 2025, successfully redeeming spot worthy ₹172.55 crore.
After a occurrence broke retired successful a refinery-cum-petrochemical analyzable successful Rajasthan’s Baltora territory connected April 20, a time earlier Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to inaugurate it, the CISF was progressive successful the fire-fighting cognition and was besides helping with the probe of what led to the fire.
There were nary casualties reported successful the vicinity of the crude distillation portion of the HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Limited (HRRL) refinery, however, the inauguration was postponed.
Acting connected the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) directives, the CISF precocious trained 450 State Fire Services unit from 187 cities successful precocious concern firefighting and catastrophe absorption astatine its Fire Services Training Institute, Hyderabad.
The MHA has allocated ₹450 crore nether the Modernisation Plan-V for the CISF to overhaul its foundational grooming infrastructure. Digital Integrated Command and Control Centres were being established astatine each grooming academies to springiness recruits hands-on technological vulnerability from time one, the authoritative said.
The CISF had importantly expanded its Battle Inoculation Training Programme successful collaboration with the Army. Young unit (under 35 years of age) who passed rigorous, NSG-aligned carnal endurance tests were being sent to elite Army formations successful the Kashmir Valley. There, they were trained successful nighttime operations, jungle warfare, and close-combat tactics.
Currently, 657 of these highly trained commandos had been deployed crossed 49 airports to service arsenic Quick Reaction Teams (QRTs). To guarantee uniformity successful combat readiness, the CISF had adopted a “One Force, One Outdoor Standard” doctrine, requiring each ranks to wide an intensive 26-obstacle people designed to NSG benchmarks.
