Context

• Central Industrial Security Force (CSIF) Raising Day is celebrated every year on March 10. On this day, in 1969, the CISF was set up under an Act of the Parliament of India with a strength of 2,800 forces.
• The Central Industrial Security Force comes directly under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and its headquarters are at New Delhi.
• The CISF is the central armed force of India. Although formed in the year 1969, CISF was established into its current state on 15th June 1983.