"Need for Indian airports to be more vigilant"

Friday, November 1, 2002

Need for airports to be more vigilant/ Advani
The Press Trust of India


Hyderabad, (PTI) The changing international security scenario has made
airports more vulnerable now than ever before and there was a need to be
more vigilant, Indian Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani said Wednesday.

A few years ago, nobody would have thought that airports require so much
of security. Now, it is a fact of life, Advani said while addressing a
group of sub-inspector trainees at the National Industrial Security
Academy (NISA) at Hakimpet on the city outskirts.

Lauding the efforts of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in
providing effective security cover for airports in the country, Advani,
who is also the Federal Home Minister, said there was growing importance
being attached to airport security internationally.

He said he was particularly impressed by airport security systems in
Israel, which, despite being a small country, had succeeded in evolving
a fool-proof security set up at all the airports.

He complimented CISF for planning to set up an Aviation Security Academy
at NISA campus here.

Advani, on a two-day visit to the city, earlier inaugurated a 400-metre
track with pavilion, a sub-officer trainees' hostel and sub-officer
trainers hostel at the Academy premises, about 30 kms from the city.

Union Minister of State for Home Ch Vidyasagar Rao, Andhra Pradesh Chief
Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, state Home Minister T Devender Goud and
Director General of CISF B B Mishra were also present on the occasion.


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