To spare passengers from physical frisking at security\nchecks, airports in India will install body scanners from 2019.<\/p>
Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) will soon come out\nwith technical specifications of these scanners and then airports can install\nthe machines.<\/p>
Although full body scanners are new to India, this\ntechnology is widely used abroad, especially in the US.<\/p>
This is expected to speed up the security check process for\nthe Indian airports lacking adequate infrastructure and restrict the escalating\nmanpower costs to provide security at the terminals.<\/p>
Passengers will also have better travel experience following\nthe installation of ful-body scanners.<\/p>
he full-body scanners to be used in all airports are called\n“millimetre wave” machines, which bounce electromagnetic waves off\nthe traveller to provide an animated image where a suspicious item might be\nlocated.<\/p>
Central Industrial Security force (CISF) which handles\nsecurity at India Gandhi International Airport revealed that as per a trial in\nDecember 2016, the machine was not able to adapt to the Indian way of dressing\nand gave false alarms whenever a woman wearing a sari passed through it. The\nscanner also found it difficult to detect objects concealed in footwear.<\/p>
Post these several trails were conducted after modifying\nseveral specifications.<\/p>
According to BCAS Chief Kumar Rajesh Chandra, they\u00a0will be issuing the specifications and regulations for active and passive millimeter wave body scanners by early next year. This is being done after the trial runs were conducted successfully.<\/p>
The scanners will be customised so that they can penetrate\nlayers of clothes, such as the chunnat (front fold) of a sari, lungi and\npallus.<\/p>
While the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA)\ninsists on using the full body scanners to protect the country from terror\nattacks, critics challenge the use of devices over privacy and health concerns.<\/p>
TSA deployed the machines and now uses 793 full-body\nscanners at 157 airports in 2016.US airports have been using full-body scanners\nsince May 2013.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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