AIRPORT SECURITY
EXPENDITURE RISES BY 86 PERCENT DURING 2001-02
The expenditure on
airport security has gone up by 86 percent during the financial
year 2001-2002 as compared to the expenditure incurred during
2000-2001.
An amount of Rs.198.86
crore was spent on airport security by Airports Authority of India
during the financial year 2001-2002. Expenditure on airport security,
including those on deployment of CISF personnel at airports, is
borne by the Airports Authority of India.
In view of the hightened
threat to the Aviation security in the recent past and the consequent
need to deploy specially trained personnel/force as also to install
sophisticated security equipments at airports, the expenditure
on airport security is not likely to come down.
This information
was given by the Minister of State for Civil Aviation Shri Shripad
Y. Naik in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
