CISF launches largest ever sports recruitment drive after record medal haul
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New Delhi: Backed by its highest-ever medal tally and rising Olympic ambitions, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) launched its largest sports recruitment drive, aiming to induct 433 new athletes, including 229 women, across 14 centres nationwide.
CISF is also forming a mountaineering team for the first time, which will attempt to scale Mount Everest by 2026.
Ajay Dahiya, deputy inspector general, INT CISF, said that the recruitment drive, which began on July 7 and will end on July 29, already attracted an overwhelming 12,868 applicants, including 350 international and 3,968 national medal winners. It marks a major step in CISF's push to emerge as a national sporting powerhouse under the Govt of India's Khelo Bharat Niti.
Applicants poured in from across the country, including remote areas such as Andaman & Nicobar Islands, tribal regions of Chhattisgarh and the Northeast, reaffirming CISF's grassroots outreach and inclusive approach.
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The recruitment initiative follows a landmark sporting year for the force. In 2024-25, CISF athletes bagged 159 medals, the highest in its history, across international, national and All India police events.
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Of these, 66 were won at World Police and Fire Games 2025 in Birmingham, USA. Medal-winning athletes were felicitated on Monday at the CISF headquarters, Lodhi Road.
Dahiya attributed the performance to a six-fold rise in sports funding (now Rs 6 crore), extended diet allowances (300 days), increased TA/DA for camps, new training facilities, and dedicated injury management support. An AIG-level officer was also posted for daily sporting oversight.
As part of its expanding sports vision, CISF is also raising its first-ever mountaineering team. The unit is being trained with the goal of scalling Mount Everest by 2026, marking a new frontier for the force in adventure sports and high-altitude endurance.
Looking ahead, select athletes will receive specialised overseas training, supported by expert coaches, physiotherapists, dietitians, and strength trainers, as part of the force's Olympic focus.
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