🔹 Assam Rifles
Oldest paramilitary force (1835)
Administrative control: Ministry of Home Affairs
Operational control: Indian Army
Role:
Counter-insurgency in North-East
Border guarding along India–Myanmar border
Maintaining internal security
Known as: “Sentinels of the North-East”
🔹 Indian Coast Guard
Established: 1978
Under: Ministry of Defence
Role:
Coastal security
Anti-smuggling & anti-piracy
Protection of EEZ
Search & rescue
Navy vs Coast Guard: Navy = military threats; Coast Guard = law enforcement at sea
