On 12 December, The Union government has sanctioned a combined strength of more than 2,800 CISF personnel to guard two soon-to-be operational international airports in Noida and in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai.
The Ministry of Home Affairs, under whose command the CISF works, had sanctioned 1,840 posts for the Navi Mumbai airport and 1,030 the Noida International Airport in Uttar Pradesh. The total CISF manpower sanctioned for providing a counter-terrorist cover to the two upcoming airports is 2,870.
The security units, to be headed by Deputy Inspector General rank officers, will take charge once the infrastructure to install security gadgets and other logistics get ready at both the facilities.
Being developed by the Adani Group, the Navi Mumbai International Airport project will be completed in five phases and will have a total handling capacity of 9 crore passengers per annum.
The first phase will have a capacity to handle 2 crore passengers per annum. Meanwhile the Noida airport unit will have about 1,700 men and women personnel, headed by a deputy inspector general-rank officer.
This security deployment is meant for the first phase of the airport’s operationalisation. The airport was initially expected to launch operations in September but has now been pushed to April 2025 following construction delays.
