Sunday, September 10, 2017

10 more airports to end stamping of hand baggage tags: CISF DG

New Delhi: Ten more airports in the country, including Pune and Ranchi, will soon do away with the practise of stamping domestic passengers' hand baggage tags, a new air travel regime that began at civil airports in April this year.
A total of 17 airports are stamp-free in the country at present, with four airports joining the new protocol yesterday+ .
The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), tasked to secure 59 civil airports against terror and security threats, will soon launch a trial of the new system at Amritsar, Chandigarh, Varanasi, Udaipur, Dibrugarh, Nagpur, Managalore, Trichy, Pune and Ranchi airports.
"We will be conducting the trial at ten more airports. Once the trials are successful, we would be bringing these ten airports under the stamp-free hand baggage regime by this month end or early October," CISF director general O P Singh told PTI.
The force, alog with other aviation security stakeholders, had started the regime at the Jaipur, Guwahati, Lucknow and Trivandrum, Patna and Chennai airports from June 1.
It has already done away with the system at seven other air facilities+ in Delhi, Mumbai, Cochin, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Ahmedabad, since April 1.
Sources in aviation security said two airports at Bhubaneswar and Bagdogra could also have been brought under the new regime, with the four airports of Coimbatore, Kolkata, Indore and Vadodara yesterday, but some "infrastructural issues" delayed the move.
The trial at the ten fresh airports will ensure that adequate security gadgets and logistics are provided at these facilities so that tight security measures are in place once the stamping of the hand baggage tags procedure is discontinued.
10/09/17 PTI/Times of India
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