Seaports, airports to get radiation detection equipment


Security at airports, seaports and border check posts will be strengthened with the installation of modern radiation detection equipment developed by Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL).

The equipment consists of a vehicle monitoring system, a portal monitor to check personal baggage/persons and special nuclear material baggage detection system for check-in baggage.

ECIL Chairman and Managing Director Y.S. Mayya told The Hindu that a trial demonstration of the equipment was carried out at the Delhi airport.

Rs. 70-cr. order

The company has bagged an initial Rs.70-crore order for installing the equipment by next January at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (Navi Mumbai), Mumbai Port, Kandla, Goa, New Mangalore, Cochin, Tuticorin, Ennore, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Paradip and Kolkata ports.

With the ports in the country not having such equipment, containers to be transhipped to the United States were first sent to Singapore or Sri Lanka for getting them scanned, according to ECIL sources.

14 airports to have equipment

The equipment will be positioned in 14 airports, including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Amritsar. In a phased manner, the remaining airports will be covered. Similarly, it is proposed to be installed at 13 integrated border check-posts.

The check posts at Wagah-Attari and on either side of the India-Nepal border will have the equipment in the near future......Read More

 

Source: The Hindu


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