Friday, July 31, 2015

'Govt fine tuning grievance redressal mechanism at airports'

NEW DELHI: In the wake of a scuffle between AAI and CISF officials that had led to the death of a security personnel at the Calicut airport last month, the government is taking various steps, including monitoring of security functioning by senior officials, to prevent such incidents in the future.

Besides, the government is fine tuning the mechanism for redressal of grievances and complaints, minister of state for civil aviation Mahesh Sharma informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

There was a scuffle between some employees of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at Calicut airport on the night of June 10 in which one CISF head constable died due to a bullet injury.

Following the incident, a "section of the CISF personnel went on a rampage, damaging the runway lights and other aerodrome grounds besides assaulting some of the officials of AAI.
30/07/15 PTI/The Times Of India
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