New Delhi: In a significant move, the civil aviation ministry has sent a proposal to the home ministry and ministry of external affairs (MEA), suggesting shortening of the VVIP/VIP list for exemption from pre-embarkation frisking at airports in the country.
Sources said that the aviation ministry is keen on shortening the list —— that is issued by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) after consultations with the home ministry ——to retain at least the first nine categories in the Union Government’s table of precedence.
The civil aviation ministry had earlier indicated that it is in favour of “pruning” the current BCAS list for exemption from frisking.
The first nine categories in the Union government’s table of precedence include VVIPs like the President, vice-president and the Prime Minister and VIPs such as the governors of states, former presidents, the Chief Justice of India, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Union Cabinet ministers.
Chief ministers of states, the Leaders of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, holders of the Bharat Ratna decoration, judges of the Supreme Court and the Chief Election Commissioner. All these categories are already there in the BCAS list.
11/04/15 Sridhar Kumaraswami/Asian Age
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Sources said that the aviation ministry is keen on shortening the list —— that is issued by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) after consultations with the home ministry ——to retain at least the first nine categories in the Union Government’s table of precedence.
The civil aviation ministry had earlier indicated that it is in favour of “pruning” the current BCAS list for exemption from frisking.
The first nine categories in the Union government’s table of precedence include VVIPs like the President, vice-president and the Prime Minister and VIPs such as the governors of states, former presidents, the Chief Justice of India, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Union Cabinet ministers.
Chief ministers of states, the Leaders of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, holders of the Bharat Ratna decoration, judges of the Supreme Court and the Chief Election Commissioner. All these categories are already there in the BCAS list.
11/04/15 Sridhar Kumaraswami/Asian Age
