New scanners to speed up security check at airports

• The long queues of air travellers removing their laptops, mobile phones and chargers from their cabin baggage before screening them could soon become history in India.
• The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is soon expected to issue technical norms which will pave the way for airports to adopt modern equipment to screen bags without removing electronic devices.

New technologies

• Technologies like dual x-ray, computer tomography & neutron beam technology will eliminate the need for passengers to remove laptops and other electronic devices.
• The call for modernisation comes at a time when airports across the country are seeing a record number of air travellers exceeding pre-COVID levels.

Prelims Takeaway

• Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS)