An official says the total aspects at airport the establish CISF could perchance perchance must work on the side of passengers, are manned by personnel who know Tamil.
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Central Industrial Security Power (CISF) personnel are being trained to talk Tamil earlier than getting deployed on the Chennai Airport, S.R. Saravanan, Inspector Neatly-liked, CISF South Sector Headquarters, Chennai, said on Monday.
On the sidelines of a meet to reveal CISF Coastal Cyclothon 2026, he said, there exists a separate transfer protection and of the total number of personnel deployed in Chennai, 60 per cent are from south India.
“Whereas 30 per cent of those deployed are Tamil, another 30 per cent will be from Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh. The the rest of the 40 per cent design from varied ingredients of the country. We present coaching in Tamil to folks that don’t know and be obvious they know the basics,” he said.
R. Ponni, Deputy Inspector Neatly-liked, CISF, Chennai Airport, said the total aspects at airport the establish CISF could perchance perchance must work on the side of passengers, are manned by personnel who know Tamil.
On whether or no longer there’s a manpower shortage of CISF personnel on the airport, Ms. Ponni spoke back in the antagonistic. Currently, 2,128 personnel are posted on the airport.
Hybrid model safety
Mr. Saravanan eminent hybrid model of safety is the design forward in future. Whereas the core areas will constantly have CISF personnel, personal safety personnel will be impart in the non-core areas.
Simplest about 25-30 such personal personnel are manning the airport, Ms. Ponni said.
On the concern of GPS spoofing at airports, she said Chennai too had faced such problems closing year. A right committee is taking a leer into combating this, she said.
Coastal cyclothon
CISF will organise the 2nd model of the CISF Vande Mataram Coastal Cyclothon 2026 and Union Minister of Verbalize for Dwelling Affairs Nityanand Rai will almost flag off the event on January 28.
The 25-day, 6,553 km biking expedition, which is willing to cloak the total mainland coastline of the country, will open at Bakkhali in West Bengal on January 28, attain Chennai on February 13, after touching loads of areas and quit at Kochi on February 22.
Printed – January 20, 2026 08:33 am IST
