On terror radar, still no one to man aviation security bureau

New Delhi: The threat perception to aviation may be skyhigh but the agency responsible for this crucial job — Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) — has all its top posts vacant.
It's last full-time top officer, commissioner security, retired this January and the post has been held as an additional charge by a joint secretary in the aviation ministry. The 'headless' BCAS has now lost its two additional commissioners also.
One of the additional commissioners, D S Chauhan, got promoted and went as IG (Patna) of Sashashtra Seema Bal, an armed force guarding the Nepal-Bhutan border. Another additional commissioner, Manoj Malviya, was recently booked by the CBI for alleged corruption and the IPS officer has now been repatriated to his home Bengal cadre. As a result, the BCAS has all its top there posts of commissioner and his two deputies vacant.
An aviation ministry joint secretary, Rohit Nandan, is holding additional charge as commissioner and Airports Authority of India's (AAI) security head, Gyanendra Singh, has been given additional charge as his deputy. The aviation ministry is fuming at the delay in the crucial appointment.
24/07/10 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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Categories: Safety Jul 2010