New Delhi, The Central Industrial Security Force on Sunday said it has transitioned from a territorial command model to a functional sector architecture, bringing together units of one kind under a single umbrella to ensure better security for the country’s strategic and economic assets.
The move will have an effect on various sectors whose installations are guarded by the central force, including power, coal, steel, petroleum and natural gas, government buildings, museums, monuments, seaports, apart from mass rapid transit systems like the Delhi Metro. In 2025, the Union government designated CISF as the nodal seaports security force and authorised it as the Recognised Security Organisation for this domain.
“Effective today, the CISF has officially transitioned its supervisory architecture from a territorial command model to a highly specialised, functional sector model,” the force said in a statement. “This landmark restructuring, rolled out with the concurrence of the Ministry of Home Affairs, represents a strategic reset aimed at elevating national security, enhancing force preparedness, and securing the critical infrastructure essential to the vision of a Viksit Bharat,” it added. “The principle driving this reform is that security must be organised not just around where an asset is located, but what it does and what its disruption would mean for the country,” the statement stated.
