India Union Budget 2022 | e-passports with embedded chip to be rolled out this year
The Hindu
Under this, new and renewed passports will be fitted with a microchip that will hold all biometric information regarding the applicants.
, .Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday, February 1, 2022, said with the embedded chip will be rolled out this year.
The Ministry of External Affairs on January 7 signed an agreement with Tata Consultancy Services Limited for the second phase of the Passport Seva Programme (PSP), one of the several Mission Mode Projects (MMPs) of the Government of India. The latest agreement will facilitate the next phase of the PSP termed PSP-V2.0.
The new programme is expected to have technology upgrade including the use of latest biometrics technology, Artificial Intelligence, Advance Data Analytics, Chat-Bot, Auto-response, Natural Language Processing, Cloud Enablement. The newest feature under the PSP-V2.0 will be the issuance of the new generation of passports called e-passports. Under this, new and renewed passports will be that will hold all biometric information regarding the applicants.
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