E-Passports to be introduced by Govt

| July 16th, 2009 | By: Piyush Goyal | Category: Nation

New Delhi: In an effort to check forgeries and misuse of passports, Government is rolling out E-passports that will carry biometric information in a chip.

Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor informed Rajya Sabha that a pilot project to issue E-passports to diplomats and officials have already been started.

“A pilot project for the issue of e-passports in the category of official and diplomatic passports has already been launched on June 25 last year,” he said replying to a question.

At present, a passport contains facial imprint but the E-passport will have all the personal details, including finger-prints, of the person carrying it.

The government had asked the national informatics centre (NIC) and IIT (Kanpur) to work on the E-passport project which has successfully developed it.

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