CISF App Will Help You Track Items Lost at Airports

CISF at Work. IGI Airtport (HT Image) website

The glaring lack of security and privacy in apps from government agencies notwithstanding, at that place are more of them springing upwardly, seemingly, with every passing day.

While mAadhaar, BHIM, and a whole host of other applications are nevertheless struggling to provide either customer satisfaction or protect citizens from cyber-security threats, it's now the plough of the Cardinal Industrial Security Force (CISF) to announce its ain mobile application that it says will help travelers register complaints to recover items they lost or misplaced at airports across India.

At that place's no exact ETA for the app to launch, but the agency says that it will be ready within the next month or 2. Once launched, the service will exist role of the UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) app, which allows citizens to access a whole agglomeration of government services on a unmarried platform.

CISF is in accuse of security at 59 civil airports in the state, and had originally launched a lost-and-establish section on its website back in 2015.

CISF App Will Help You Track Items Lost at Airports — Prototype Courtesy: Hindustan Times

According to CISF spokesperson Assistant Inspector Full general (AIG) Hemendra Singh, "The main advantage of this mobile app is that the passengers tin directly register complaints and get status of their complaint immediately from the airports under our security cover".

He likewise noted that the CISF was able to trace and return property worth fifty.05 crore to their rightful owners last year, while stuff worth Rs 5.49 crore accept already been restored to the passengers through its spider web portal until March 12 this year.

The one major difference between the app and the website will exist the ability to written report lost or stolen goods. While the app will allow passengers to upload information on the lost manufactures along with travel details, the website allows passengers no such facility, and can simply display the list of items found at the airports when the authorities upload them officially. According to the CISF, passengers raising a complaint through the app will even receive a notification when their lost article is found.