New Delhi:The mundane task of scanning what gets on an aircraft from IGI Airport's low-cost domestic terminal, 1D, is all set to become an eye-popping one. The aviation authorities have decided to install body scanners at this terminal by the year-end to test and evaluate a new technology being used in the US for acceptability in India.
According to sources, the United States Trade and Development Agency offered to get one of its leading scan manufacturers to give one or two machines to India for testing, so that the country can see how useful they are and then hopefully place a big order.
As a result, a couple of "millimetre wave" scanners are currently being specially made for Indian 'conditions' in the US so that they can penetrate the layers of clothes unique to the country —like chunnat (front fold) of a sari, lungi and pallus.
Read News in full 16/09/13 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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