Lok Sabha Question No. 2324 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-10
Subject: Registered and Unregistered Security Agencies
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Ajay Kumar Mandal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2324

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 10 TH  DECEMBER, 2024/ AGRAHAYANA 19, 1946 (SAKA)

REGISTERED AND UNREGISTERED SECURITY AGENCIES

2324.     SHRI AJAY KUMAR MANDAL:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a) the details and number of registered and unregistered security agencies working in the country, State/UT-wise;

(b) whether Private Security Agencies have been given a broader mandate by the Government by framing the Private Security Agencies Model Rules, 2020 and if so, the details thereof;

(c) the benefit of the Private Security Agencies will get out of this rule;

(d) whether the Government  has any mechanism  to regulate the functioning  of  private  security  agencies  in  the  country  including  their recruitment and training; and

(e) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI NITYANAND RAI)

(a): The  Union  Government  does  not  maintain  the  record  of  private security agencies (PSA) working in the country. However, a web portal has been  developed  to  enable  the  Controlling  Authorities  under  the  State Governments/ UT Administrations  to  maintain  a  database  for  effective

## L.S.US.Q.NO. 2324 FOR 10.12.2024

monitoring  of  the  relevant  provisions  of  the  Private  Security  Agencies (Regulation) Act, 2005 [PSAR Act]. As per the PSARA portal, 25536 valid licences of PSAs exist as on 05.12.2024.

(b) & (c): The  Union  Government  has  notified the Private Security Agencies Central Model Rules, 2020 in supersession of earlier Model Rules of 2006. The new Model Rules accommodate changes in the ecosystem and are aligned with the key visions of 'Digital India' and 'e-Governance'. The benefits of Private Security Agencies from these Rules are as under:

- Adoption of technological developments. Viz: Digitalization, Electronic Payment.
- It is for the first time that a digital database of Crime and Criminal Tracking  Network  &  Systems  (CCTNS)/Inter-operable  Criminal Justice System (ICJS) will be used for antecedent verification with no physical interface thereby reducing time limit for antecedents' verification to 15 days from 90 days.
- Incorporates National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF).
- Simplification of Application Forms.
-       Validity of antecedents' verification certificate of guards increased to 5 years in place of 3 years.
- Pan-India Validity of Training Certificates.

## L.S.US.Q.NO. 2324 FOR 10.12.2024

- In case of licence granted in one State to a private security agency, no need for antecedents' verification process in other States.
- Force Majeure clause provided.
- Subjects for training of licensee are included.
- Enhancing 'ease of doing business' with 'minimum government' and maximum governance'

(d) & (e): Private Security Agencies are regulated as per the provisions in the PSAR Act, 2005. The recruitment and training of private security guards are  regulated  in  terms  of  Private  Security  Agencies  (Regulation)  Rules framed  by  the  respective  State  Government/UT  Administration.  The Controlling Authorities in the States/UTs are empowered to ensure training for  private  security  guards.  Instructions  have  also  been  issued  to  State Governments/Controlling  Authorities  by  the  Ministry  of  Home  Affairs  to strictly ensure that the private security guards are mandatorily imparted training  by  registered  training  institutes  before  their  appointment  as security guards as prescribed in the PSAR Act and related State Rules.

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