Bangalore, July 31 - The ceremony to welcome the latest 'entrants' to IT bellwether Infosys Technologies at its Electronic City campus here Friday was a grand one, with the company's co-founder, chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayan Murthy himself doing the honours.

The 101 'new entrants' were, however, no IT geeks joining the country's second largest software exporter as its recruits.

They were the personnel of Central Industrial Security Force in their uniforms, bearing arms and marching in smartly to begin guarding the sprawling campus of the Infosys Bangalore campus where around 20,000 people work.

CISF Inspector General R. K. Mishra assured the Infocians that his men will be unobtrusive in carrying out their duties.

'We will protect techies and the company but won't intrude on their private space,' Mishra told IANS.

'Our men will not do frisking and other checking of the employees. So, where is the question of intruding on the private space of Infosys employees?' asked Mishra.

T.V. Mohandas Pai, director (Human Resource) and Infosys board member, said that techies and rest of Infosys employees were aware of security drills that would occasionally be conducted and were game for it.

'We already have around 350 security personnel, some of whom are also armed. So, our employees are used to gun-toting guards. The security cover at Infosys is meant to protect the techies and company and not to harass them by intruding on their private space,' Pai explained.