| Date: |
12-05-2000
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| Notification No: |
Customs Circular No 41/2000
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| Issuing Authority: |
Indian Customs
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| Type: |
Circular
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| File No: |
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| Subject: |
Screening of passengers’ baggage
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Screening of passengers� baggage
Circular No. 41 dated 12th May
2000
While examining a
VIP reference it has come to the notice of the Ministry that at Mumbai Airport
15-20% passengers, arriving from sensitive airports and walking past the Green
Channel were made to undertake baggage screening. This is reported to be causing
a lot of inconvenience to the passengers. Besides, this defeats the very purpose
for which Green Channel facility was created.
2. The
matter has been examined. The Ministry is of the view that such a high
percentage of screening may not be necessary for passengers walking through the
"Green Channel". Instead, the field formations should intensify their
intelligence and surveillance system of passenger profiling to ensure that only
suspect passengers, and frequent short-visit passengers are diverted from the
Green Channel.
3. The action taken
in this regard may please be intimated to the Board at an early date.
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