Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday in the Union Budget 2022 that India will launch the issuance of e-passport with embedded chips soon to make it easier for people to plan travel abroad.The e-passports with embedded chips will be introduced this financial year for the ease of international travel.
The MEA earlier confirmed that India will soon introduce the next-generation e-passport its for citizens.
Here are the features of the new e-passport with embedded chips:
Secure biometric data like fingerprints
smooth #immigration passage globally
If CHIP with security details has been tampered passport authentication will fail
To be produced at India Security Press, Nashik
