Two anniversaries shadow the Parliament House Complex: the 2001 terror attack that shocked India’s democratic conscience and the 2023 security breach that exposed worrying gaps in access control.

Out of those twin reminders has emerged a far more muscular, technologically driven and professionally structured security architecture. At its centre stands the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), now the primary custodian of the nation’s most sensitive democratic space.

In May 2024, after a painstaking review of the vulnerabilities revealed in 2023, CISF assumed full command of Parliament’s layered security matrix. Over 3,300 personnel were inducted, including more than 200 specialists in fire and disaster response, marking the largest single security restructuring of the complex in two

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