With the commissioning of the Air Enclave at Porbander, the ICG will be in a better position to carry out its operations.
"It will be Gujarat's first Air Enclave set up with all the modern facilities," Wing Commander Satish Menon said.
The pilots and other staffs will be posted who are based in Porbander. The civil aviation authorities at Porbander, have given an air enclave to ICG to operate from the civil airport at Porbander, sources said.
This was due to the air squadrons of the coast guard used to fly from the Air Enclave at Daman which used to take some time. There will be saving on time as well as fuel due to the commissioning of air enclave at Porbander, the sources added.
The ICG has set up such enclaves in Anadaman Nicobar and Kochi in Southern India.
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The Air enclave, will also help fishermen, preventing them crossing into the Pakistani territory water.