The Centre, on a trial basis, had issued 20,000 official and diplomatic e-passports embedded with an electronic microprocessor chip.<\/p>\n
Currently, the Indian passport is in a booklet format. If you apply for a new passport or re-issue of a current one in 2021, you will likely get the e-passport.<\/p>\n
This move might reduce the forgery as e-passports will be difficult to forge and help faster immigration for the passengers.<\/p>\n
The e-passports will follow the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards.<\/p>\n
The media report indicated that all 36 passport offices in India will issue e-passports after the components of the personalization system are installed in the current issuance system.<\/p>\n
The e-passports will be incorporated without any disturbances to the current system and also without any increase in the current issuance time.<\/p>\n
On June 24, the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar while emphasizing the need to speed up the launch of e-passports had said their introduction will greatly strengthen the security of Indian travel documents.<\/p>\n
Jaishankar also said that the ministry is working with Indian Security Press, Nashik, and National Informatics Centre for e-passports with advanced security features.<\/p>\n
The Centre is looking for an agency to set up the IT infrastructure for the big project which will issue 10,000-20,000 e-passports per hour. IT systems will be set up in Delhi and Chennai to handle the load, the report stated.<\/p>\n
The e-passports generated on a trial basis until now were issued only from Consular, Passport, and Visa (CPV) Division at Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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