Surat: Even as the monthly passenger traffic has increased to more than 60,000 passengers and flight movement to over 20, Surat airport continues to face neglect from the central government when it comes to enhancing safety and security of passengers.
Despite long-pending demand for deployment of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel at Surat airport, the civil aviation ministry and the ministry of home affairs (MHA) have turned a blind eye to the need.
Recently, the office of director general of CISF stated that the CISF was a need-based force and its deployment is made as per the instructions of the MHA. In case of airports, the nodal agency Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is empowered to conduct survey and the need for manpower is recommended to the MHA after sanction from the ministry of civil aviation.
'We Work For A Working Airport At Surat' (WWWAS) member Rajesh Modi has written to BCAS for initiating a survey at Surat airport and recommending CISF manpower requirement to the MHA.
Modi has sent a detailed letter to the director general of BCAS reasoning why CISF security services were urgently required at Surat airport. In the last one-and-a-half-decade, the city has grown leaps and bounds and ranked as the eight fastest growing city of the world. The airport has posted 300 per cent growth in 2017 with operations of almost 22 flights and 62,000 passengers per month.
On the other hand, Diu and Rajkot airports having one and five flights respectively and serving 2,000 and 20,000 passengers per month have been provided with CISF security, while Surat airport with 22 flights and 62,000 passengers per month was still awaiting nod for CISF security from the Centre.
24/01/18 Times of India
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Despite long-pending demand for deployment of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel at Surat airport, the civil aviation ministry and the ministry of home affairs (MHA) have turned a blind eye to the need.
Recently, the office of director general of CISF stated that the CISF was a need-based force and its deployment is made as per the instructions of the MHA. In case of airports, the nodal agency Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is empowered to conduct survey and the need for manpower is recommended to the MHA after sanction from the ministry of civil aviation.
'We Work For A Working Airport At Surat' (WWWAS) member Rajesh Modi has written to BCAS for initiating a survey at Surat airport and recommending CISF manpower requirement to the MHA.
Modi has sent a detailed letter to the director general of BCAS reasoning why CISF security services were urgently required at Surat airport. In the last one-and-a-half-decade, the city has grown leaps and bounds and ranked as the eight fastest growing city of the world. The airport has posted 300 per cent growth in 2017 with operations of almost 22 flights and 62,000 passengers per month.
On the other hand, Diu and Rajkot airports having one and five flights respectively and serving 2,000 and 20,000 passengers per month have been provided with CISF security, while Surat airport with 22 flights and 62,000 passengers per month was still awaiting nod for CISF security from the Centre.
24/01/18 Times of India
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