New Delhi: An agency that oversees security at India's top airports has pointed to gaping holes in the security apparatus at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport and called for urgent action to fix them.
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has submitted a report to the government on the airport, India's busiest, in the backdrop of the 2 January attack on the air base in Pathankot, Punjab, by at least six Islamist militants who India said belonged to the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed terror outfit.
The first key finding of the report starts from the access road to the airport, run by a consortium led by GMR Infrastructure Ltd and spread over a vast area of about 5,000 acres.
The dividers meant to stop vehicular traffic on the access road, which act as the first line of defence, have been "out of order" for about three months, according to the report, a copy of which has been reviewed by Mint.
The automated licence plate recognition (ALPR) used for years as an access control function does not work. Not only that, the driver image-capture system that keeps a record of every person driving into the airport has also not been working.
29/02/16 Tarun Shukla/AviationPros
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The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has submitted a report to the government on the airport, India's busiest, in the backdrop of the 2 January attack on the air base in Pathankot, Punjab, by at least six Islamist militants who India said belonged to the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed terror outfit.
The first key finding of the report starts from the access road to the airport, run by a consortium led by GMR Infrastructure Ltd and spread over a vast area of about 5,000 acres.
The dividers meant to stop vehicular traffic on the access road, which act as the first line of defence, have been "out of order" for about three months, according to the report, a copy of which has been reviewed by Mint.
The automated licence plate recognition (ALPR) used for years as an access control function does not work. Not only that, the driver image-capture system that keeps a record of every person driving into the airport has also not been working.
29/02/16 Tarun Shukla/AviationPros
