New Delhi: Air travellers were a puzzled lot on Friday morning. Thanks to the beginning of a long weekend, they predictably saw massive rush at India's busiest airports. But amid that chaos, they found to their surprise Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) putting "security checked" stamps on their hand bag tags. This, a day after the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) had said this practice will be discontinued at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Cochin airports.
TOI had in its Friday edition front-paged the CISF-BCAS tussle on this issue due to which stamping is unlikely to stop in a hurry. While finding out the cause of this disagreement, it has now emerged that the two agencies have locked horns earlier too. The seeds of the same lie in the dispute between their parent ministries - aviation (BCAS) and home (CISF) — over who should be in charge of aviation security.
"Baggage stamps have a small number which state the counter where the same was X-rayed. The idea is to trace who was the person who screened the same if it is later found that the bag had something dangerous in it. Now 100% CCTV coverage can do the same job. If a cabin bag is found to have something dangerous in it later on, the CCTV footage can show who went wrong in screening," said a person while explaining the dispute between the two agencies.
25/02/17 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India-
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TOI had in its Friday edition front-paged the CISF-BCAS tussle on this issue due to which stamping is unlikely to stop in a hurry. While finding out the cause of this disagreement, it has now emerged that the two agencies have locked horns earlier too. The seeds of the same lie in the dispute between their parent ministries - aviation (BCAS) and home (CISF) — over who should be in charge of aviation security.
"Baggage stamps have a small number which state the counter where the same was X-rayed. The idea is to trace who was the person who screened the same if it is later found that the bag had something dangerous in it. Now 100% CCTV coverage can do the same job. If a cabin bag is found to have something dangerous in it later on, the CCTV footage can show who went wrong in screening," said a person while explaining the dispute between the two agencies.
25/02/17 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India-
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