(The Gist of PIB) Biometric enabled Centralised Access Control System  [JANUARY-2020]

(The Gist of PIB) Biometric enabled Centralised Access Control System

Biometric enabled Centralised Access Control System

• Minister of State (I/C) for Civil Aviation launched the Biometric enabled Centralised Access Control System (CACS) and e-BCAS Project Training Module.

Key highlights:

• The two projects launched are important milestones to enhance security and ease of doing business at airports.
• Covering 43 Airports of AAI and 5 Joint Venture airports at present, the CACS project is aimed to digitize the employee movement process at the airports.
• This multi-layered security system encompasses the uniqueness of the Airport Entry Permit (AEP) users, biometric authentication in addition to PIN-based identity verification through contactless smart card technology, which manages access of personnel along with RFID based automated vehicle access control system according to the region, terminal, zone, and gate access privileges.
• The cost of the card is Rs. 225, which shall be valid for three years. Biometric ID (Biometric enabled Centralised Access Control System having chip embedded smart AEPs) thus issued, is non-duplicable.
• An MoU was signed between ECIL and BCAS on 17th December 2015 with an overall investment of Rs.34.92 crore. The project aimed to digitize the existing mechanism at the airports and reduce human intervention systematically as until now employees were issued laminated paper based Aerodrome Entry Permit.
• Airports Authority of India successfully conducted SAT (Site Acceptance Test) at various airport i.e. Ahmedabad, Chennai and Kolkata recently.
• The ‘e-BCAS Project: Training Module’ aimed at helping more than 1.5 lac employees of various stakeholders by migrating from manual process of training to digital platform.
• The objective of the e-BCAS project is to make all the activities in the BCAS transparent, user-friendly, and efficient and above all, the project intends to provide an ease of doing business with the stakeholders.
• All 29Aviation Security Training Institutes (ASTIs) have been registered as User Entities and now they can make nominations for various courses online.
• Moreover, the system will also allow its users to check the approval by BCAS, declaration of results and QR coded online certificate generation will also be done through this project only.
• This would result in making the entire training ecosystem of BCAS transparent as well as efficient.

e-BCAS Project:

• The ‘e-BCAS’ project envisaged to achieve a “paperless office” under e-Governance initiative of GoI.
• It’s aimed at facilitating external stakeholders to access the BCAS system by digital automation of all internal office procedures in 2016, the project was approved by Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) at an estimated cost of Rs.21.69 crore.
• The e-BCAS project included Training module, Quality Control and Operational module and Administration etc.
• After modifications, the current training module part has been completed at an estimated cost of Rs.30.00 lakhs approx. only.In due course of time, with the integration of all three modules into the platform of e-BCAS, the processing time in giving clearances and approval will be reduced considerably.
• These steps will ease the process of training, audit/inspections, enhance the throughput as well as a lot of time, energy and precious man hours of all stakeholders.

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