{"id":5984,"date":"2022-12-21T03:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T21:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:34:46","slug":"bureau-of-civil-aviation-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bureau-of-civil-aviation-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Bureau of Civil Aviation Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) was initially set up as a Cell in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in January 1978 on the recommendation of the <strong>Pande Committee.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The BCAS was reorganised into an independent department under the <strong>Ministry of Civil Aviation on 1st April, 1987.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The main responsibilities of BCAS include laying down standards and measures with respect to security of civil flights at international and domestic airports in India.<\/li>\n<li>It has got four Regional Offices located at International airports i.e. <strong>Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Functions:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Laying down Aviation Security Standards in accordance with Annex 17 to <strong>Chicago Convention of ICAO<\/strong> for airport operators, airlines operators, and their security agencies responsible for implementing AVSEC measures.<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring the implementation of security rules and regulations and carrying out survey of security needs.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that the persons implementing security controls are appropriately trained and possess all competencies required to perform their duties.<\/li>\n<li>Planning and coordination of Aviation security matters.<\/li>\n<li>Surprise\/Dummy checks to test professional efficiency and alertness of security staff.<\/li>\n<li>Mock exercise to test efficacy of Contingency Plans and operational preparedness of the various agencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is ICAO?<\/h3>\n<p>International Civil Aviation Organisation is a specialised agency of the United Nations funded and directed by 193 national governments to support their diplomacy and cooperation in air transport as signatory states to the Chicago Convention (1944).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GRLALIJ1A.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New scanners to speed up security check at airports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCAS is an independent department for security of flights at international &#038; domestic airports in India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}