Mumbai: Despite repeated terror threats and a two-month-old promise to deploy state police security personnel, Juhu airport remains one of the most vulnerable aerodromes in the country.
As the proposal to induct 117 police personnel is pending with the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security ( BCAS), only 30 policemen currently guard the airport. The policemen also cannot provide round-the-clock security due to lack of basic amenities such as washrooms and toilets for them. The newly laid perimeter road, around 500 metres long, has already become unapproachable and unhygienic for even policemen as slum-dwellers use it as an open toilet, said sources. Juhu airport's boundary also continues to be open to intrusions.Sources at the airport said two months ago, locals from Nehru Nagar slum, a part of which already extends around 29 acres into the airport, started constructing a structure within the airport premises; it was subsequently demolished by the airport officials and the police.
01/10/13 Chinmayi Shalya/Times of India
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As the proposal to induct 117 police personnel is pending with the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security ( BCAS), only 30 policemen currently guard the airport. The policemen also cannot provide round-the-clock security due to lack of basic amenities such as washrooms and toilets for them. The newly laid perimeter road, around 500 metres long, has already become unapproachable and unhygienic for even policemen as slum-dwellers use it as an open toilet, said sources. Juhu airport's boundary also continues to be open to intrusions.Sources at the airport said two months ago, locals from Nehru Nagar slum, a part of which already extends around 29 acres into the airport, started constructing a structure within the airport premises; it was subsequently demolished by the airport officials and the police.
01/10/13 Chinmayi Shalya/Times of India
