Guwahati, July 27: The Adani Group, which is operating the LGBI airport at Guwahati, the busiest in northeast India, has deployed private security guards for non-core security duties. However, the core security duties remains with CISF.

Adani Group has already deployed the first batch of 50 private security guards.

This is in line with the last year’s proposal of Civil Aviation Ministry to airport operators to look at outsourcing non-core security works at aerodromes to private agencies.

“This is a conscious decision of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) and the private security agencies have been engaged after BCAS clearance. Some security positions and assignments which are of non-core nature had been now entrusted to private security agencies… A few such positions where you may not need CISF, like checking tickets, manning the pathways between departure and arrivals… these are all non-core, all these security duties as per BCAS protocol will now be performed by private security guards, we have already inducted 50 of them,” Utpal Baruah, Chief Airport Officer of LGBI Airport, said.

The move is also expected to help in reducing the financial burden on airport operators.

“They have been trained by the CISF and now they are doing parallel-banking duties that means they are also there deployed along with CISF… CISF will be withdrawn from these non-core positions,” Baruah added.