(a) whether India has got `D` category for the security of Indian sky and airports;
(b) if so, the reasons therefor; and
(c) the measures being taken to improve the image of the country with regard to the security standards?
(a) whether India has got `D` category for the security of Indian sky and airports;
(b) if so, the reasons therefor; and
(c) the measures being taken to improve the image of the country with regard to the security standards?
THE MINISTER OF CIVIL AVIATION
(SHRI CHAMAN LAL GUPTA)
(a) to (c) A statement is laid on the Table of the House.
STATEMENT IN REPLY TO PARTS (a), (b) & (c) OF THE LOK SABHA
ADMITTED STARRED QUESTION No.218 for 9.3.2000 REGARDING
SECURITY STANDARDS AT AIRPORTS
(a) No, Sir.
(b) Does not arise.
(c) Security arrangements at airports in India are in
accordance with the standards and recommended practices laid
down in Annex-17 to the Convention on International Civil
Aviation (Chicago) 1944 and the International Civil Aviation
Organisation (ICAO) Security Manual.
The following measures have been taken to further strengthen
aviation security:
i)Deployment of Central Industrial Security Force(CISF)
personnel in place of State Police for security duties at
all operational domestic airports in the first phase. The
CISF has already taken over the security duties at Patna,
Jaipur, Guwahati, Vadodara and Port Blair airports.
ii)Frisking of passengers and hand baggage at the time of
entry into sterile area has been tightened. Ladder point
secondary frisking has been introduced.
iii)Deployment of Sky Marshals on flights of Indian Airlines
and Air India as an added precaution.
iv)Strict control on access to the airports is being ensured
by comprehensive review of Photo Identity Cards to restrict
the number of pass-holders and banning of entry of the
visitors upto 31.3.2000.
v)Raising of the perimeter wall to the prescribed height at
all the operational airports.
vi)Replacement of old X-Ray machines and installation of new
colour X-Ray machines wherever necessary so as to ensure
that atleast two X-Ray machines are available at every
point.
vii)Modernisation and upgradation of security related
technological set up of the airports is being done in a
phased manner.