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Security in Parliament

  • 21 Jun 2024
  • 1 min read

Source: IE

In April 2024 the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was handed over to the security of the Parliament after an extraordinary security breach at Parliament House on 13th Dec 2023.

  • Parliament security is a part of the Lok Sabha Secretariat. Earlier, security responsibilities were with the Parliament Security Service (PSS) and Watch and Ward committee.
  • The Watch and Ward Committee was set up on the initiative of Vithalbhai Patel, president of the Central Legislative Assembly.
    • The committee was set up after the incident of 8th April 1929, when revolutionaries Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs and pamphlets into the Assembly.
  • The committee's name was changed in 2009 to PSS, which is under the control of the Speaker.

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