IGI officials on tenterhooks as audit date draws near

New Delhi: Authorities at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport are taking all steps required to ensure that it clears an audit by international aviation body International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), slated to be conducted next month.
Sources said among the problem areas are the poor lighting arrangements around the airport periphery. Trees should be pruned to effect better security. As access control at the cargo terminal is managed by a private security agency, security levels are not particularly high. In the interests of better hygiene, security personnel are required to use gloves while frisking passengers. Also, the number of security officials responsible for screening and profiling passengers is inadequate, as is the count of personnel deployed at aircraft boarding gates.
Airport authorities are understandably wary as they prepare to receive a team of officials from the ICAO for an audit in the first week of February. Unwilling to take any chances, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has conducted an internal audit of facilities in and around the airport and has asked the agencies concerned to implement the recommendations before the audit team reaches India.
31/01/11 Geeta Gupta/Indian Express

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Categories: Airports Jan 2011