With Republic Day approaching and no time being saved for commuters even after doing away with stamping of baggage tags, the CISF has ended the one-week trial run at Indira Gandhi International Airport and passengers will have to get the tags stamped again. However, the move is likely to return post January 26, 2017.
Meanwhile, the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will start the one-week trial run again at seven different airports, which will be followed by similar trials at other airports. “We provide security to 59 airports and have covered seven in the first phase. Before January 26, 2017 we want to finish the trial run and after that a complete review will be conducted. We aim to introduce it at all the airports to save passenger’s time,” the Director General of CISF, OP Singh, said. The next trial run will be conducted at Guwahati, Patna, Lucknow, Jaipur, Nagpur, Trivandrum and Kochi airports.
CISF conducted a review and while other airports said that passengers’ time was saved, at Delhi airport due to the congestion at terminals, no time could be saved. The trial run was conducted at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Bengaluru airports during which domestic travellers were allowed to fly without putting tags on their cabin bags.
