Govt to roll out e-passports with electronic chip, bio-metric security features: Report

The government eased the rules for obtaining passports for various categories, including single mothers, orphans, sadhus and adopted children on December 23, 2016. The important changes in rules were put in place, after considering various requests and demands from different groups of people.

An e-passport contains an electronic chip that holds the same information printed on the passport’s data page, with biometric features, and is likely to secure the data and curb the menace of fake passports. They will be launched in 2017 itself, according to the report. More than half of the nations across the globe, including Germany, Italy and Ghana already have bio-metric e-passports.

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