Each belt will have to be closed for operations for at least 15 days,” an airport official said on Monday. Once inline baggage screening starts, passengers in the domestic section will no longer have to stand in separate queues to get their registered luggage scanned before checking in. Back-end electrical work for the inline baggage screening system has started. “We always advise domestic passengers to arrive at the airport 30 minutes earlier than the scheduled two-hour window before departure because of the queues. The inline baggage screening system was to be installed by June, but procurement hassles at the headquarters of the Airports Authority of India delayed its arrival at the port.

Source: The Telegraph September 24, 2018 21:33 UTC