New baggage security system for 5 airports

New Delhi: In a first for the country Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Srinagar and Calicut airports would get the online security system under which passengers would straightaway take the bags to airline counters and then they would be screened by one agency. Only in case of some suspicious object being detected in a bag, the passenger would be called for opening them and checking the doubtful thing.
"We have placed orders for the online systems and they would be installed at these airports at a cost of Rs 40 crore by this September," Airports Authority of India (AAI) chairman K Ramalingam said.
The existing security system in which bags are first x-rayed and then remain with unfrisked passengers has one big flaw as anything could be kept in the numerous zipper pockets after the security clear tag has been put on it.
"Major places like Jaipur, Udaipur and Amritsar would also get the online security system," said Ramalingam.
05/02/07 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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