INDIAN PARAMILITARY FORCES

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'Indian Paramilitary Forces' are those agencies of the Ministry of Defence or the Ministry of Home Affairs which act as armed forces auxiliaries and are considered part of the Indian Armed Forces.
There are a large number of such paramilitary forces with a wide range of roles. The different forces tend to share a broadly gendarmerie role and generally perform counter-insurgency or anti-terrorist missions.
The Indian Paramilitary Forces (PMF) are regarded as the world's second largest (Second only to the Chinese People's Armed Police with 1.5 million personnel) and most formidable paramilitary force. In 2002, the total strength of the paramilitary force stood at 1.3 million personnel.

★ Assam Rifles: 40,000 personnel in 31 battalions commanded by a Lieutenant-General

★ Border Security Force: 180,000 personnel

★ Central Industrial Security Force: 90,000 personnel

★ Central Reserve Police Force: 165,000 personnel in 200 battalions

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★ Rapid Action Force - a 10 battalion semi-independent part of the CRPF trained to respond to sectarian violence. The Anti-Riot Police of the Indian Union.

★ Indo-Tibetan Border Police - 12,000

★ Rashtriya Rifles: 40,000 personnel

★ Defence Security Corps - 30,000

★ Railway Protection Force

★ Indian Home Guard: 40 to 60 thousand personnel

★ Civil Defence

★ Special Security Bureau

★ National Security Guards: 7500 personnel

★ Special Protection Group: 3000 personnel

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See also

★ Indian Army

★ Indian Air Force

★ Indian Navy

★ Indian Coast Guard

★ National Security Guard

★ Special Frontier Force

★ Special Protection Group

★ National Cadet Corps (India)

External links

★ Assam Rifles official site

★ Analysis of the PMF

★ An informative article on the PMF

★ Global Security article on Border Security Force