NEW DELHI: Passengers with disabilities will no longer be asked to remove their prosthetic limbs during security checks at airport, except in rare cases where passenger profiling necessitates the same.The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) will also examine if instead of x-raying wheelchairs — which requires passengers to be shifted to another wheelchair during conduct of pre-embarkation security checks — the same can be can be visually inspected and checked with the help of hi-tech equipment so that the inconvenience of shifting wheelchairs can be avoided.These decision were taken at a meeting called by CISF chief OP Singh with BCAS, aviation ministry officials and NGOs to discuss security check procedure at airports for persons with disability. The idea was to review security check under of the disabled existing BCAS provisions without compromising on safety and at the same time making them disabled-friendly.A CISF spokesman said the paramilitary force suggested “that a prosthetic appliance which does not have any foam padding cover under which any weapon/explosive can be concealed and in which the steel rod of the appliance is clearly visible, may be screened only by visual inspection and explosive trace detector (ETD) checks, without removing it.” Only in “rare cases where there is sufficient justification based on profiling of the passenger”, X-Ray screening may be resorted to.“It was also suggested that screening of prosthetic appliance covered with foam padding (in which the steel rod of the appliance is not visible) will include visual inspection, ETD checks and X-ray screening, if deemed necessary, due to special reasons,” the CISF official said. BCAS joint chief Jyoti Narayan said at the meeting that his agency has already issued necessary instructions incorporating the suggestions of CISF.“It was suggested that in place of X-ray screening of wheelchair , it can be visually inspected and checked with the help of ETD and other equipment which will reduce inconvenience for such travelling passengers. It was decided that the issue will be examined by a committee and action taken soon,” the official said.