BCAS fully complies with ICAO's aviation safety norms: Govt

The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security has complied with the norms set out by the global oversight body ICAO, the government said today.
BCAS, which is responsible for civil aviation security, lays down the standards for airport operators and airlines, among others.
The Civil Aviation Ministry today said BCAS has "fully met the target of implementation of security norms prescribed by the UN oversight body, ICAO".
A team from International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) recently conducted audit of Indian civil aviation security and security at Delhi airport in October, an official release said.
The audit looked at nine areas, including legislative and regulatory architecture, performance of security personnel and security training.

"They (ICAO team) have noted that effective implementation of aviation security in India stands at 99.23 per cent. Similarly, India's compliance of ICAO security requirements stands at 99.59 per cent", the release said.

The last audit of Indian aviation security systems was done by ICAO in February 2011. At that time, these figures were around 89 per cent.
Meanwhile, RGIA today became the first airport in the
country to offer e-boarding facility to domestic fliers. The seamless facility covers all the boarding processes right from entry into the terminal building of the airport to boarding the aircraft.
Fliers, however, would have flexibility to follow the traditional process of showing a photo-ID to gain entry into the airport in case the Aadhaar number is not available.

Developed in-house, the e-boarding solution eliminates the need for manual stamping of boarding cards even for physical boarding cards issued by CUSS (Common Use Self Service) machines or the check-in counters.
"The idea is that passengers should not feel inconvenienced," Raju said.
"Few months back on a pilot, Hyderabad and Bengaluru airports had come on board and now we are looking at airports throughout the country coming on board," he said.
Replying to another query, he said, "Technically, we have three modern airports in the country that can have parallel runways - Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Delhi. For a country like India's size, two on the west coast and two more on the east coast are needed.