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Home Ministry set to take over Bureau of Civil Aviation Security
October 31 , 2017
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- The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is set to move a proposal before the Cabinet Committee on Security for taking over the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), currently under the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA).
- Ministry of Civil Aviation has showed its opposition to this Home Ministry's move.
- The decision is based on a security audit conducted by a team of experts from the MHA, Intelligence Bureau, CISF and BCAS, which had recommended the change.
- The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is an agency of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
- Its head office is located in New Delhi.
- BCAS has four regional offices - Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata.
- BCAS is responsible for laying down standards, policies and measures with regard to security of all commercial flights.
- It was set up as a cell in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in 1978, after an Indian Airlines flight was hijacked in September 1976.
- After that BCAS was re organised as an independent department under the MoCA on April 1, 1987, as a follow-up to the Kanishka bombing in June 1985.
- It is currently headed by a commissioner of security.
- Multiple agencies working at airports, including the Intelligence Bureau, immigration officials, security personnel, local police, are bound by regulations passed by BCAS.
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