New Delhi: India is set to gain access to sensitive information from agencies looking after aviation security in the United States and a group of European countries. The government is expected to sign soon a sensitive security information (SSI) agreement with US authorities, and an MoU each with the 44-member European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) and the United Kingdom.
These will facilitate sharing of information on potential terror threats to flights and on technology needed at airports to counter these, including the secret database maintained by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a US government body, and the ECAC, which has 44 European countries as members. The agreement to be signed with the UK is expected to take longer.
The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Intelligence Bureau have given the go-ahead to the Ministry of Civil Aviation to sign the SSI agreement with the US, which will now be put up before the cabinet for final clearance, a top official said. The MoUs with the ECAC and the UK will follow after this.
20/02/13 Ajmer Singh/Indian Express
