SIX MORE AIRPORTS TO BE TAG FREE

NEW DELHI: Central Industrial Security Force has said Patna, Chennai, Jaipur, Guwahati, Lucknow and Thiruvananthapuram airports will be tag free after the trial run from April 24 to 30.

Six more airports in the country could soon do away with the practise of stamping passengers’ hand baggage tags, after few prominent ones ushered in the new system from April 1.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), tasked to guard 59 civil airports in the country, on Monday initiated a week-long trial of the new system at the airports of Chennai, Patna, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram, Jaipur and Lucknow.

Beginning April 1, the CISF has already done away with the system at seven such air facilities in Delhi, Mumbai, Cochin, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Ahmedabad.

“The week-long trial at these six airports will end on April 30. We will take a call based on the results and the assessment.

“If all the security concerns are found satisfactory, we will be ushering in the new regime of non-stamping of the hand baggage tags at these six airports very soon,” CISF Director General O P Singh said.

The trial will ensure that adequate security gadgets and logistics are provided at these airports so that fool proof security measures are in place once the stamping of the hand baggage tags procedure is discontinued.