New Delhi: India will soon join the select list of countries like US, UK and Netherlands to test handbag scanners based on a new technology that does not require passengers to take out laptops and small bottles of liquid for being checked separately. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) on Monday gave the go-ahead do a pilot project on this 3D-based computed tomography (CT) scanner at Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad airports. This technology has already been tested at international hubs like New York JFK, London Heathrow and Amsterdam Schiphol.
BCAS DG Kumar Rajesh Chandra: “We have granted permission to Hyderabad airport (to test this technology). We have also granted permission on the basis of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) request (for the same).” CISF had sought BCAS nod to do a trial of this machine at security hold area at Delhi and Mumbai airports.
Comments from the three airports were sought to know when do they plan to conduct the same. The state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) had recently told TOI that it had been approached by an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of this system for testing the same at airports here. “One of the OEM of CT checkpoint X-ray scanner has expressed their willingness to install CT X-Ray baggage scanner (as a) pilot project.… Based on pilot studies, BCAS will come out with the technical specification and other modalities of operation of CT checkpoint scanner, at Indian airports,” a senior AAI official had said a couple of months back.
Once tested and approved by BCAS, the machine could then be installed by airports in India too. Given the acute airport infra crunch in India, the use of technology to speed up passenger throughput is becoming vital. None of our cities added airport capacity, like augmenting existing airports or build secondary ones where required, as air traffic exploded in last few years. As a result, our airports like the busiest ones at Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore are bursting at seems.
26/11/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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BCAS DG Kumar Rajesh Chandra: “We have granted permission to Hyderabad airport (to test this technology). We have also granted permission on the basis of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) request (for the same).” CISF had sought BCAS nod to do a trial of this machine at security hold area at Delhi and Mumbai airports.
Comments from the three airports were sought to know when do they plan to conduct the same. The state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) had recently told TOI that it had been approached by an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of this system for testing the same at airports here. “One of the OEM of CT checkpoint X-ray scanner has expressed their willingness to install CT X-Ray baggage scanner (as a) pilot project.… Based on pilot studies, BCAS will come out with the technical specification and other modalities of operation of CT checkpoint scanner, at Indian airports,” a senior AAI official had said a couple of months back.
Once tested and approved by BCAS, the machine could then be installed by airports in India too. Given the acute airport infra crunch in India, the use of technology to speed up passenger throughput is becoming vital. None of our cities added airport capacity, like augmenting existing airports or build secondary ones where required, as air traffic exploded in last few years. As a result, our airports like the busiest ones at Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore are bursting at seems.
26/11/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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