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Express Security Check facility gets rolling at RGIA
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Director General O P Singh on Friday said that the authorities would do away the tagging and stamping of hand baggage of domestic passengers in 59 airports in the country by December this year.
​Hyderabad: Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Director General O P Singh on Friday said that the authorities would do away the tagging and stamping of hand baggage of domestic passengers in 59 airports in the country by December this year.
The CISF DG launched the Express Security Check facility at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport of GMR at Shamshabad on Friday. On the occasion, O P Singh said that a new system of doing away with stamping of hand baggage tags was introduced a couple of months back at 13 airports in the country.
After August 15, the facility would be made available at another six airports on trial run basis. ``By the end of this year, we propose that all the 59 airports, which are under the CISF cover, will dispense with the system,” said Singh.
In the Express Check facility, domestic passengers (without check-in baggage), after printing their boarding pass from the newly installed self-service kiosks located at departures forecourt area outside the terminal building, can now enter the ‘Express Security Check’ lane without getting into the check-in area and head straight towards the boarding area.
Around 40 per cent of the passengers like regular travelers carry hand bags and they had to wait for the security check. But with Express Check facility, they need not have to wait and they would be allowed to go directly.
Singh blamed the airlines for `bunching’ of flights during the peak hours and advised them to upgrade their infrastructure to meet the growing demand. He said there has been a growth in the number of passengers in the airports in the country.
He informed that during the last two to three years there has been a growth of 20 per cent. He further informed that 13 crore passengers were handled in the airports in the country in 2016. GMR Hyderabad International Airport CEO S G K Kishore said they are in process of expanding the airport to meet the growing demand. ``We will be doubling the capacity of the airport.
In the next couple of years, we will ensure that the new expanded facility will be available for passengers. The new facility will have all the latest technologies,” said Kishore. He said that the Hyderabad International Airport is expected to handle about 18 million passengers this year. It handled 10 million passengers in 2014 but in 2017 the passengers have gone up to 18 million, he said.
