Trays used to keep wallet, mobile, laptop for x-ray sanitised after every use: CISF
by Saurabh Sinha(Representative image: PTI)
NEW DELHI: Amid the contactless travel experience at post-pandemic airports, travellers need not worry about putting their belongings in a tray for passing through x-ray machines at pre-embarkation security checkpoints (PESC). The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is sanitising those trays each time a passenger picks up his stuff after scanning. And, the same is been sanitised before the next passenger uses it to drop his or her belongings.
“We have devised protocols to ensure the safety and security of our personnel, passengers and everyone else at the airport in keeping with the requirement of the Corona pandemic. Our new protocol ensures our personnel can diligently do their job with minimum or no physical contact with passengers,” M A Ganapathy, CISF special director-general and head of the airport sector, told TOI.
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The contactless protocol saw CISF personnel examining passenger ticket and ID from behind a flexiglass shield. Frisking is also being done by a detector attached to a wand. “Our security protocol is uniform and standardised across the country,” Ganapathy said.
CISF was prepared for a much larger number of passengers than those who turned up on day one. The large number of flight cancellations meant about half the number of passengers could actually take to the skies on Monday.
The low numbers meant CISF could do a trial of its new protocols which went off smoothly. Now, travellers are hoping states also have uniform protocol for arriving passengers.