Tatanagar Railway Station will soon get equipped with hi-tech luggage scanner. From next week a passengers entering into Tatanagar station will have to get one's luggage put on a luggage scanner at the entrance. Luggage scanner, which was a long-standing necessity for a A-One catagory station like Tatanagar, is finally being installed.
A final survey was jointly conducted today by officials of Railway Protection Force (RPF), Tatanagar station management and the company which will provide and commission the machine being installed.
According to information the electronic gadget will be installed within the next five to six days time.
The luggage scanner will be installed just beside the Enquiry counter outside the entrance to the Platform No 1. An official of a Noida-based company, Vehant Technologies Pvt Ltd which is providing and installing the luggage scanner said that it is a 5.5 metre-long and one metre wide machine having an overhead monitor.
The deck where the luggage scanning will be carried out is 3.5 metre long and the remaining two metres will be rollers -- one metre on either side.