India tries market-based security collectives

Telegraph India: Shaken by the most devastating militant attacks on oil installations in recent times, oil majors and Dispur have revived a 2003 proposal to raise an exclusive security force to guard the vast network of pipelines and installations across Assam. Officials of oil companies will meet government representatives on February 3 to work out the modalities of raising the force, which would, in all probability, be culled out from the Assam Tea Plantation Security Force, formed exclusively for the tea sector in the nineties.