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Updated: Aug 03, 2023 19:11 IST

New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): Full physique scanners will quickly be put in at Delhi, Mumbai and different airports as manpower with expertise is required to cope with the rising variety of air passengers in any respect airports within the nation, stated Zulfiquar Hasan, director common of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS).
He was talking on the inauguration of aviation safety tradition week, starting on July 31 at BCAS headquarters in Delhi.
“Going with the growth in the aviation sector, full body scanners are required. After detailed trials, orders have been placed and soon it will be installed at Delhi, Mumbai and other important airports in a phase-wise manner. We have the capacity and manpower to frisk 66,000 passengers per hour in the country at various airports,” stated Hassan.

Full Body scanners will definitely assist in detecting prohibited gadgets, and medicines hidden contained in the physique cavity that may’t be detected within the presently out there safety programs like Door Frame Metal Detector (DFMD) and Hand dealt with Metal detectors.
“Only three-four companies in the world that are in manufacturing of full-body scanners, the orders have been placed, it will be done at the earliest.” He added.
Earlier, informing in regards to the utility of full-body scanners, a senior Airport Authority of India official stated that presently, it takes round 30 seconds on common to frisk a passenger manually however with the deployment of those millimetre-wave technology-based full-body scanners, the identical will be finished in 15 seconds. The official had additionally knowledgeable that, not like the steel detector, the millimetre-wave-based full physique scanner will assist to detect any liquid or plastic hidden beneath the garments of the passenger. It works on the precept of physique contours and is designed to detect objects that might be hid within the physique.
AAI can be putting in 131 full-body scanners at numerous airports operated by AAI, relying upon the passenger load. (ANI)