Alok Kumar Pateria is new ADG of CISF
Q. Who has been appointed the CISF ADG till May 31, 2020?- Published on 24 Oct 17a. Alok Kumar Pateria
b. Kiran Bedi
c. KPS Gill
d. OP Singh
ANSWER: Alok Kumar Pateria
Alok Kumar Pateria has been appointed as the new additional director general (ADG) of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
The appointments committee of the Union Cabinet on Monday approved the appointment of Pateria as the CISF ADG on deputation basis for a period up to May 31, 2020, the day of his superannuation from the date of assumption of charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
Pateria is a 1986 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre.
Among the winners of the President's Medal in 2010 is Alok Kumar Pateria, Joint Director (Policy) who earlier as JD (North) had handled sensitive cases like the disproportionate assets case against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and the Provident Fund scam at Ghaziabad court.
CISF: Know More - The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) (established in its present form: 15 June 1983) is a Central Armed Police Force in India.
- It was set up under an Act of the Parliament of India on 10 March 1969 with a strength of 2,800. CISF was subsequently made an armed force of the Republic of India by another Act of Parliament passed on 15 June 1983.
- Its current active strength is 144,418 personnel and in April 2017, the government raised the sanctioned strength from 145,000 to 180,000 personnel.
- It is directly under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and its headquarters are at New Delhi.
- The CISF provides security cover to 300 industrial units, government infrastructure projects and facilities and establishments located all over India.
- Industrial sectors like atomic power plants, space installations, mints, oil fields and refineries, major ports, heavy engineering, steel plants, barrages, fertiliser units, airports and hydroelectric/thermal power plants owned and controlled by Central Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), and currency note presses producing Indian currency are protected by CISF.
- It thereby covers installations all over India straddling a variety of terrain and climatic conditions. CISF also provides consultancy services to private industries as well as other organisations within the Indian government.
- The consulting wing has amongst its clients some of the renowned business houses and organisations of India including TISCO, Jamshedpur; SEBI Hdqrs. Mumbai; Vidhana Sabha, Bangalore; Orissa Mining Co., Bhubaneswar; Telangana Assembly, Hyderabad; Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corp.; HIL Kerala; IB Thermal plant, Odisha; IARI, Delhi; NBRI, Lucknow and Electronics City, Bangalore.
- The scope of CISF's consulting practice includes security consulting and fire protection consulting.
