Bangla Hunt, Pallab Ghosh: Inorder, to make security stringent at airports across the country, Central government has decided to install body scanner across 84 airports by March 2020 and gradually replace the conventional door frame metal detectors and hand-held scanners. The government also plans to do away with the hand-pat searchers used to detect metallic objects being carried by passengers. Health wise, these are safe for all passengers, including pregnant women. These scanners work on technology based on millimetre wave technology comprising non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation.
Another advantage of these body scanners is that they not only detect metallic objects but also non-metallic objects which will be of great help to security personnel.
According to security agencies, out of 105 operational airports in the country at present, 28 have been marked as hypersensitive, including those in big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai. The airports situated in insurgency prone regions like Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast also falls under this category. 56 airports are categorized as sensitive. 28
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