INDUSTRIAL SECURITY MANAGEMENT * IN TAMILNADU Dr.D.MUTHUSWAMY INTRODUCTION Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty and Industrial Security is one critical area, which calls for unrelenting attention being bestowed upon. The fundamental concept of ‘Security Systems’ or ‘Security Services’ denotes care or vigilance or constant watch, but its connotations, applications and dimensions have undergone perceptible changes with every succeeding ‘technological leap forward’. Several security experts reiterate that security both as a concept and as an activity is much more than mere ‘watch and ward’. Contemporary circumstances have necessitated a high degree of strategic and tactical operations in the area of security duties if they are to be truly effective. This is more because of the changes in the socio-economic and corporate-industrial environment in India and all over the globe. The term ‘industry’ is generally used in a restrictive sense to mean ‘production organization’ (Lambert 1963). Etzioni (1969) also delimits the term to mean ‘economic organization’. The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 of India also defines the term ‘industry’ to mean any business, trade, undertaking, manufacture, or calling of employers and includes any calling, service, employment, handicraft, or industrial occupation or avocation of workmen. Such organizations engaged in the manufacture of goods and rendering of services may be either capital-intensive or labour-intensive or both. The growth of world into a work shop on account of industrialization highlights the need to take utmost precautions and care to safeguard men and material from all kinds of hazards, losses, and threats, either internal or external or both, without which the ‘functional pre-requisites’ (Parsons 1951) would remain without being met. This fundamental requirement is both biogenic as well as sociogenic because the principle ‘survival of the fittest’ applies to organizations as it applies to individuals. Industrial Security may