Fourteen schools have reportedly approached the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to get a professional security audit done of their premises and effectively secure students.
The development comes in the wake of killing of a boy in a Gurugram school recently.
The paramilitary force, that works under the command of the Union Home ministry, had sometime back written to schools across the country extending services of its special consultancy wing that provides security suggestions to organisations and agencies.
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To date, 14 schools from all over India have requested CISF to provide consultancy service to strengthen their security apparatus for safety of children, CISF spokesperson AIG Hemendra Singh said.
He said those who have shown interest in the offer made by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) include reputed schools from Kolkata, Mumbai and Dehradun.
Expert teams of the consultancy wing will soon visit these schools and prepare a professional security blue print for them, Singh said.
The CISF security consultancy wing was raised in 1999 and till now it has provided its expert advise to over 150 organisations or indihome institutions including IITs, IIMs, RBI and the National Police Academy in Hyderabad among others.
The wing also posted its best result this year as it earned `2.54 crore revenue as government fee for providing these services.
There has been noticeable surge in revenue earned through consultancy fee in the last four years.
Average annual revenue earning till 2013 since inception was `20 lakh whereas in last four years the wing has earned revenue of `7.06 crore.
This makes the average annual revenue for the last four years to `1.77 crore, Singh said.
During this calendar year the total revenue earning is `2.54 crore which is the highest ever in a single calendar year since inception of the consultancy services.
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The previous best earning through consultancy was of `2.10 crore in 2015, he said.
The paramilitary, mandated as the nodal security agency to guard critical installations in the country including airports, had dispatched letters to a number of schools stating it can help create a safe and secure environment for children which will come with a service fee.
The consultancy fee would be around `4 lakh for a school, it had said. The force has assured the schools that its professional but chargeable security solutions will be custom-made for them like it does for each of its clients.
The guidance reportedly tells the client where to install CCTV cameras, where to deploy security staff, how to check access control, how to train security staff and install emergency response gadgets.