Fulll-body Scanner

Full body scanners are expected to be installed at the Delhi airport by May 2024, a senior official said on Friday. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) Director General Zulfiquar Hasan also said that due to some provisioning issues, the deadline for installing full-body scanners and CTX scanners at certain airports will be extended. The deadline is to end on December 31. Once CTX (Computer Tomography X-ray) scanners are in place, passengers will not have to remove their electronic gadgets from baggage during security checks at airports.

Full body scanners will be deployed at airports in a phased manner and the process is expected to start at major airports within a year, BCAS chief Zulfiquar Hasan said on Monday and stressed that there will not be any privacy issues as those have already been sorted out worldwide. He also said that there will be options for passengers who have health issues in case they cannot use such scanners. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has set a deadline for the end of next year for the deployment of full body scanners at airports. At a briefing in the national capital, Hasan said BCAS has given a deadline but there are procurement cycle issues as airport operators get these machines from the same two or three vendors around the world. To begin with, full body scanners will be deployed at major airports like Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. "We will deploy full-body scanners and it will be in a phase-wise process. We have given orders for a few airports and we hope that this proc

"Full-body scanners can detect non-metal objects, which are hard to detect with the conventional door frame metal detector, Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) said in a statement.

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It is expected that the scanner will be made operational from November-end on trial basis at IGI's domestic terminal 1D