Indian citizens will soon get chip-enabled e-passports, which will ensure a smooth passage through immigration posts around the world. The MEA Secretary Sanjay Bhattacharya confirmed the development in a recent tweet. He said these e-passports will be compliant with the International Civil Aviation Organisation ICAO standards, and will be produced at Nashik's India Security Press.
India will introduce a next-gen e-passport for citizens. Immigration posts are smooth passage through the world. Bhattacharya tweeted, produced by Nashik, India Security Press.
This passport will be embedded with an electrical microprocessor chip, making it more difficult to forge passports and allow quick immigration for international passengers.
The ministry will issue chip-enabled e-passsports with advanced security features to citizens. The applicant's personal details would be digitally signed and stored in a chip that would be embedded in the passport booklet. In the event that anyone tampers with the chip, the system will be able to identify it, which will result in the failure of the passport authentication, the Ministry of External Affairs said in March last year in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
After it is inducted into the current passport system, all 36 passport offices in India will issue e-passports. The International Civil Aviation Organisation ICAO standards will ensure that these e-passports are interoperable between different countries.