India's busiest airports - Mumbai and Delhi - will soon test a new technology to scan handbags that does not require passengers to take out laptops and small bottles of liquid to be checked separately. This 3D-based computed tomography (CT) scanner has already been tested at international hubs like New York JFK and London Heathrow.
A senior Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official said, "We have written to Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) director-general for a trial of this machine at any airport of India one month back. We will prefer (to test this) Delhi or Mumbai airport."
BCAS DG Kumar Rajesh Chandra said, "I will review the same on Monday and a decision will be taken shortly."
The state-run Airports Authority of India had recently told TOI it had been approached by an original equipment manufacturer of this system to test the same at airports here.
Once tested and approved by BCAS, the machine could be installed at airports in India too. Given the acute airport infra crunch in India, the use of technology to speed up passenger throughput is becoming vital.
24/11/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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A senior Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official said, "We have written to Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) director-general for a trial of this machine at any airport of India one month back. We will prefer (to test this) Delhi or Mumbai airport."
BCAS DG Kumar Rajesh Chandra said, "I will review the same on Monday and a decision will be taken shortly."
The state-run Airports Authority of India had recently told TOI it had been approached by an original equipment manufacturer of this system to test the same at airports here.
Once tested and approved by BCAS, the machine could be installed at airports in India too. Given the acute airport infra crunch in India, the use of technology to speed up passenger throughput is becoming vital.
24/11/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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