The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) units of Punjab and Haryana Civil Secretariat organised a 10 km walkathon from Sukhna Lake Sports Club to Matka Chowk, to celebrate golden jubilee year 2018-19.
On the occasion, Director General, Information, Public Relations and Languages Department, Haryana, Sameer Pal Srow said that the Central Industrial Security force has organized this walkathon not only to celebrate the golden jubilee, but has also reminded the people the service done to nation by this force in its 50 years journey.
Srow said that the country would always remain indebted to services rendered by CISF since it was established in the year 1969 . The theme of today’s Walkathon “Hum Fit To India Fit” is very important in today’s time. Forces have very well conveyed the message of fitness to the public. There can be no better message than this for any citizen on their golden jubilee by any security force, he said.
He further said that during this period of fifty years, this force has become the country's major multi-skilled agency. This force is making a very important contribution to important areas of the country, such as sensitive government buildings, nuclear establishments, airports, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and internal security and disaster management, he said.
Recently, Forbes magazine published that, the Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi has been called as safest airport protected by this security force, and this is a huge achievement of this force, he added.
The golden jubilee of the force is being celebrated in different parts of the country 2018-19. In this Walkathon, about 200 officers and jawans of this unit of Central Industrial Security Force and various armed security forces took part.
CISF was established in the year 1969 with an aim of providing security cover to the public sector undertakings.