Eight more airports to get CISF security cover

New Delhi: As airports in the country face increasing threats from terrorists, the government has decided to provide a fool-proof CISF security cover to eight more such facilities, including the sensitive ones at Srinagar and Leh.
The CISF is presently guarding 54 airports including the newly-privatised ones at Delhi and Mumbai and the green-field airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore besides several sensitive government installations.
Besides Srinagar and Leh, the new airports which would be given CISF security cover are Gorakhpur, Bhavnagar, Dehradun, Jamnagar, Porbandhar and Shillong, the force's acting Director General S I S Ahmed said here.
However, the Srinagar airport would still be under the control of a Joint Command of various central security forces.
07/03/07 Zee News

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Categories: Airports Mar 2007, Safety Mar 2007