Counter Insurgency & Anti-Terrorism School, CRPF

The Counter Insurgency and Anti Terrorism School (CIATS) of the Central Reserve Police Force, on the A.B. Road in Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh, was set up in November 2009 to train personnel in counter-insurgency and anti-terrorism operations. NBCC was the executing agency for its Campus.

One Campus, planned as a whole

The entire 140-acre site was planned and designed by ARCH-EN DESIGN as a single, comprehensive project, bringing training, administration, messes, barracks, homes and services together on one Campus. A gateway opens onto a tree-lined approach that leads to a broad circular green, with the main buildings set around it.

Training and community buildings

• An administrative and training block with classrooms
• Officers’ and subordinate officers’ messes
• A men’s club with canteen and family welfare centre
• A 10-bed Hospital
• A drill shed, parade ground and swimming pool
• Stores and tradesmen’s shops, an MT workshop and a dhobi ghat
• The gateway

Barracks and homes

Barracks house 270 men, and 100 residences for officers and staff range from Type II to Type VI.

Stone, glass and deep frames

The administrative and training block pairs red and grey stone cladding with deep-framed windows and a broad entrance porch. The Gazetted Officers’ Mess sets a tall glazed bay in a terracotta frame beneath a light space-frame canopy, with residential wings and balconies on either side.

ARCH-EN DESIGN was responsible for the Master Planning and Architectural design of the Campus, for NBCC.