Attari yet to get full body truck scanner

  • | Sunday | 18th November, 2018

ATTARI: The installation of the proposed full body truck scanner (FBTS) at the India’s first Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari has missed its deadline. Sukhdev attributed the delay in completion of construction work to the inclement weather. Sources said the work was to be completed by the end of September but with the pace of construction, it may take another two months to do so. He said the FBTS had arrived from the US and was presently in Gwalior. High rise walls had been constructed to protect the operators from the radiation hazards.

ATTARI: The installation of the proposed full body truck scanner (FBTS) at the India’s first Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari has missed its deadline. Sources said the work was to be completed by the end of September but with the pace of construction, it may take another two months to do so. Besides, the civil structure is getting ready but the machine is yet to arrive at ICP.Ever since the foundation stone of Attari ICP was laid in 2010, the security agencies and businessmen had been demanding that FBTS be installed at Attari to check cross border attempts of smuggling of drugs, arms and ammunition.“We have completed 99% of the civil works, but it will still take some time for the installation of FBTS,” Land Port Authority of India (LPAI) manager Sukhdev Singh told TOI on Saturday.In March 2017, Union minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju had stated that the government was in process of procuring five FBTS which would be installed at Attari, Petrapole (India-Bangladesh border), Poonch-Chakandabagh, Uri-Salambad (both along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir) and Raxaul (India-Nepal border). He said the FBTS had arrived from the US and was presently in Gwalior. “As soon as the civil work is completed , the scanner would be brought here for installation” he said.The civil work for the installation of FBTS had begun on March 19 at Attari, but owing to bureaucratic hassles it was delayed by over two months.The LPAI manager informed that the civil work was being carried out as per recommendations and guidelines of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) to ensure radiation safety for the operators.Sources informed that since the FBTS were required to be operational in all weather, it could be installed only after AERB approval. High rise walls had been constructed to protect the operators from the radiation hazards. Sukhdev attributed the delay in completion of construction work to the inclement weather.

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