To make IGI safer in terror days, high-intensity bomb disposal machine soon

New Delhi: The Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), which is modernising the city airport, is in the process of procuring the country’s second Total Containment Vessel (TCV), touted as the most foolproof bomb disposal machine.
The TCV is a spherical, vessel-like device, used for the first time by the National Security Guards to defuse a live bomb near Regal Cinema on September 13, when serial blasts rocked Delhi.
A TCV, CISF officials said, is now seen as a much-needed equipment to further secure the airport.
Sources said DIAL had ordered the TCV before the September 13 serial blasts and procurement is in final stages now. Delhi Police is also learnt to have ordered one such machine following the spate of blasts across the country in recent past.
The vehicle costs approximately Rs 3 crore.
The CISF is responsible for security inside the high-alert airport; Delhi Police mans security outside its premises. At present, a Bomb Disposal and Detection Squad (BDDS) is available with the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, headquartered at Mahipalpur near IGI, to take care of bomb threats.
While a TCV was first used in India during the Delhi blast, it has been extensively used by the US forces in Iraq, a CISF official.
Sources said the vessel, ordered from the US, can withstand a blast of up to 8 kg high explosives
Dial has also procured two ground bomb killer blankets for use in terminal buildings.
05/11/08 Geeta Gupta/Expressindia.com

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Categories: Airports Nov 2008, Safety Nov 2008