The Centre has sanctioned armed security cover of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel to secure the recently launched Jio World Centre, a business and entertainment centre in Mumbai developed by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL).
The Jio World Centre. touted to be about 12 times larger than a FIFA football field and 10.3 times the size of the Empire State Building in New York, has come up on an 18.5 acre campus at the Bandra Kundra Complex (BKC) in Mumbai.
A CISF contingent of over 200 personnel will provide round the clock security cover to the Reliance facility.
This will be the third RIL facility to be brought under the security umbrella of the Central paramilitary tasked to secure vital installations in the public and private sector in the country. The Reliance IT Park in Navi Mumbai and the Reliance Refinery in Jamnagar, Gujarat, were earlier accorded CISF security cover.
RIL promoters Mukesh Ambani and his wife and founder-chairperson of the Reliance Foundation Nita Ambani are protectees of the CRPF VIP security wing.
About 230 CISF personnel will be deployed at the Jio Centre to provide counter-terrorist cover to the facility. The force will take over the security role of the facility later this month. The move to secure the Jio World Centre and entrust the CISF for its security came after the Union Home Ministry reviewed threat assessment reports prepared by Central security agencies against possible terrorist and sabotage threats posed to it.