Question

Which paramilitary force is known as the Sentinels of the North-East?
(A) Special Frontier Forces
(B) Indian Coast Guard
(C) Indian Army
(D) Assam Rifles

Answer 1

Hint: A paramilitary group is a semi-militarized force whose structural assembly, strategies, training, subgroup, and (frequently) function are parallel to those of a specialized military. It must be noted that it is not officially part of a nation's armed forces.

Complete answer:
The Assam Rifles is the oldest paramilitary force of India. The unit can trace its ancestry back to a paramilitary police force that was started under the British in 1835 called Cachar Levy. Since then, the Assam Rifles have endured a number of name variations—the Assam Frontier Police (1883), the Assam Military Police (1891) and Eastern Bengal and Assam Military Police (1913), before definitely becoming the Assam Rifles in 1917. Over the progression of its past, the Assam Rifles and its antecedent units have aided in a number of tasks, struggles and theatres together with World War I where they assisted in Europe and the Middle East, and World War II where they aided largely in Burma. It is under the management of the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and they complete numerous parts counting the delivery of internal security under the power of the army through the demeanour of counter insurgency and border safety procedures, delivery of assistance to the non-combatants in times of tragedy, and the delivery of infrastructures, medical help and education in isolated zones.

Thus, option (D) is correct.

Note: In 2020, 2 married village women in the Champhai district of Mizoram were apparently mauled by Assam Rifles employees while returning from the field. The local police accused the Assam Rifles employee and a detention permit was supplied against them on September 9, 2020. Nevertheless, the Assam Rifles "jumbled the accusation" and repudiated it to hand over the men, favouring its own courts to supervise the issue.