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Government’s plan on issuance of ‘e-passport’
Context
The administration is leveraging technology to promote transparency. It is now preparing to launch e-passports soon.
About
What is an e-passport?
- The government announced the plan for the issuance of e-passports in the Budget 2022.
- According to the plan, the e-passport will be a hybrid of paper and electronic passports, complete with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip.
- An antenna will be integrated as an insert into the rear cover.
- The chip will save crucial passport information, which will then be printed on the data page.
- The International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations organization, specifies the qualities of an e-passport.
Privacy and Security:
- The government underlined that the data collected from citizens for e-passports will be utilized solely for the purpose of passport issuing and related services.
- There will be no secondary use of the data, hence addressing privacy concerns.
- Digital certificates are used to authenticate and cryptographically sign subsequent transactions.
- Once collected, the information is kept in a secure industry-standard database.
- The Security Operations Centre will run appropriate database security measures around the clock.
Implementation and technical responsibilities:
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has purportedly won the contract to produce e-passports.
- TCS will encode the hardware chips, which will be provided by the government.
- The government has delegated technical responsibility to the National Informatics Centre (NIC).
- The e-passports will be manufactured by India Security Press in Nashik, Maharashtra, which has given letters of intent for the purchase of 4.5 crore ICAO-compliant electronic chips.
- Interestingly, the government gave India's first e-passport with biometric information to former President Pratibha Patil in 2008.
- E-passports improve passport security by eliminating duplication and data manipulation, and border control agencies will utilize them to monitor passenger admission and leave.
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