Paramilitary forces of India: Difference between revisions

India maintains 10 paramilitary forces.<ref name="IISS 2012">{{cite journal|title=Chapter Six: Asia |pages=205–302 |journal=The Military Balance |volume=112 |number=1 |author1=IISS |author-link1=International Institute for Strategic Studies |date=2012 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=[[London]] |doi=10.1080/04597222.2012.663215}}</ref>

From 1986 to 2011 the [[Central Armed Police Forces]] were considered as Central Police Forces (CPO).<ref>{{cite web|title=Office Memorandum|url=http://www.mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/OM2-020513.pdf |website=MHA |publisher=MHA, GoI |access-date=26 August 2015 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117183848/http://www.mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/OM2-020513.pdf |archive-date=17 January 2016 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> However, as per their respective acts they all are Armed Police Forces.<ref>{{cite web|title=Office Memorandum |url=http://www.mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/OM2-020513.pdf |website=MHA |publisher=MHA, GoI |access-date=26 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117183848/http://www.mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/OM2-020513.pdf |archive-date=17 January 2016 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/for-the-paramilitary-all-s-in-a-new-name/cid/415027 |title=For the paramilitary, all's in a new name. |website=telegraphindia}}</ref>

|[[File:Assam_Rifles_LOGO.svg|26px]] [[Assam Rifles]] || 63,747<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/EnglAnnualReport2016-17_17042017.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=12 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808200948/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/EnglAnnualReport2016-17_17042017.pdf |archive-date=8 August 2017 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> || {{hlist|[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] (administrative)|[[Ministry of Defence (India)|Ministry of Defence]] (operational)}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-assam-rifles-dual-control-structure-role-nagaland-violence-7658329/ |title=Explained: Assam Rifles’ dual control structure, and its role}}</ref> || Northeastern States

| [[File:BSF Insignia.svg|26x26px]] [[Border Security Force]] || 257,363<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/EnglAnnualReport2016-17_17042017.pdf |title=Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs Annual Report 2016–17 |access-date=12 August 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808200948/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/EnglAnnualReport2016-17_17042017.pdf |archive-date=8 August 2017 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> || [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] || Indo-Pakistani border, Indo-Bangladeshi border, others<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bsf.nic.in/en/introduction.html |title=Border Security Force |website=bsf.nic.in |access-date=9 December 2019}}</ref>

|[[File:CISF LOGO.svg|26px]] [[Central Industrial Security Force]] || 148,371<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/EnglAnnualReport2016-17_17042017.pdf |title=Annual Report 2016-17 |access-date=12 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808200948/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/EnglAnnualReport2016-17_17042017.pdf |archive-date=8 August 2017 |url-status=dead  |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India}}</ref> || [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] || Industries, [[Public sector undertakings in India|PSUs]]

|[[File:CRPF LOGO.svg|26px]] [[Central Reserve Police Force]] || 324,340 || [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] ||Counter-insurgency & General Elections

|[[Indo-Tibetan Border Police]] || 89,567 || [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] || India-China Border<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://itbpolice.nic.in/itbpwebsite/Aboutus_new/history&role/htmnav.html |title=Home &#124; Indo Tibetan Border Police, Ministry of Home Affairs |website=itbpolice.nic.in |access-date=9 December 2019}}</ref>

|[[File:National Security Guard-India.svg|26px]] [[National Security Guard]] || 14,000  || [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] ||[[Counter-terrorism]]

|[[Railway Protection Force]] || 75,000 || [[Ministry of Railways (India)|Ministry of Railways]] || Indian Railways

 

|[[File:Sashastra Seema Bal.svg|26px]] [[Sashastra Seema Bal]] || 97,244<ref name=":0">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VNAzQEACAAJ |title=The Military Balance 2020 |last=(Iiss) |first=The International Institute of Strategic Studies|date=14 February 2020 |publisher=Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated |isbn=9780367466398 |language=en}}</ref> || [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] || Indo-Nepal Border and Indo-Bhutan Border<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ssb.nic.in/index1.aspx?lsid=38&lev=2&lid=10&langid=1&Cid=0 |title=Role- SSB Ministry Of Home Affairs, Govt. Of India |website=ssb.nic.in |access-date=9 December 2019}}</ref>

|[[File:Emblem of India.svg|26px]] [[Special Frontier Force]] || 10,000<ref name=":0" /> || [[Cabinet Secretariat of India|Cabinet Secretariat]]<ref name="Chhina and Kaushik">{{cite web|author-last1=Chhina |author-first1=Man Aman Singh |author-last2=Kaushik |author-first2=Krishn |date=2 September 2020 |title=Explained: What is the Special Frontier Force, referred to as Vikas Battalion? |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/what-is-special-frontier-force-vikas-battalion-6578568/ |access-date=2 September 2020 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> ||

|[[Special Protection Group]] || 3,000<ref name=":0"/> || [[Cabinet Secretariat of India|Cabinet Secretariat]] ||Protection of significant VIPs

| || '''1,082,632''' || ||

! Rank group|| colspan=10| Junior commissioned officers || colspan=12| Non commissioned officer || colspan=14| Enlisted