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Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) unit are being trained to talk Tamil earlier getting deployed astatine the Chennai Airport, S.R. Saravanan, Inspector General, CISF South Sector Headquarters, Chennai, said connected Monday.
On the sidelines of a conscionable to denote CISF Coastal Cyclothon 2026, helium said, determination exists a abstracted transportation argumentation and of the full fig of unit deployed successful Chennai, 60 per cent are from southbound India.
“While 30 per cent of those deployed are Tamil, different 30 per cent volition beryllium from Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh. The remainder of the 40 per cent travel from different parts of the country. We supply coaching successful Tamil to those who don’t cognize and marque definite they cognize the basics,” helium said.
R. Ponni, Deputy Inspector General, CISF, Chennai Airport, said each the points astatine airdrome wherever CISF volition person to interact with passengers, are manned by unit who cognize Tamil.
On whether there’s a manpower shortage of CISF unit astatine the airport, Ms. Ponni replied successful the negative. Presently, 2,128 unit are posted astatine the airport.
Hybrid exemplary security
Mr. Saravanan noted hybrid exemplary of information is the mode guardant successful future. While the halfway areas volition ever person CISF personnel, backstage information unit volition beryllium contiguous successful the non-core areas.
Only astir 25-30 specified backstage unit are manning the airport, Ms. Ponni said.
On the contented of GPS spoofing astatine airports, she said Chennai excessively had faced specified problems past year. A dedicated committee is looking into combating this, she said.
Coastal cyclothon
CISF volition organise the 2nd variation of the CISF Vande Mataram Coastal Cyclothon 2026 and Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai volition virtually emblem disconnected the lawsuit connected January 28.
The 25-day, 6,553 km cycling expedition, which volition screen the full mainland coastline of the country, volition statesman astatine Bakkhali successful West Bengal connected January 28, scope Chennai connected February 13, aft touching respective areas and extremity astatine Kochi connected February 22.
