After a lot of criticism for having only few frisking booths for women, four more have been installed at Chennai airport on Wednesday.
Airport director G. Chandramouli said, “We realised women were facing difficulties with lesser number of booths. The work on it started few months ago and we implemented it on Wednesday. We hope this would ease the congestion during peak hour traffic.”
10 booths for women
Earlier, there were only six frisking booths for women in contrast to 14 for men; now, four more added to make it ten booths for women.
For several months now, many women passengers had complained and even posted on Twitter about the inadequate number of frisking booths in the airport.
Now, passengers said they were greatly relieved to hear the addition of more booths.
Prakruthi Ram, a frequent flyer said, “Only when I travel, I will know how the situation has improved. But since four more booths have been installed, I’m certain it will help. When I travelled last month, I had to stand for nearly 45 minutes.”
Also, all six booths are seldom opened, even earlier, and unless more booths are kept open for women, it will unlikely to have great benefits, passengers pointed out.
Another passenger Surabhi K. said, the authorities could go one step further and make the number 14. “We are happy they have increased the booths but what is the rationale behind having lesser number of booths for women. There should equal number of booths for both genders,” she added.
