e-Passport (Biometric Passport) for Indians

Indian Government has just recently initiated first phase deployment of Biometric e-Passport for Diplomatic Passport holders in India and abroad. The new passports have been designed indigenously in India by the Central Passport Organisation, the India Security Press and IIT Kanpur, it contains a security chip with all personal data and digital images. In first phase new passports will have 64KB chip which contains personal photograph of passport holder and subsequently it will have a fingerprint. The new passport has already tested with passport readers in United States and have 4 second of response time which is 2/5th of US Passport 10 second response time. It need not be carried in a metal jacket for security reasons, it will first need to be skimmed through a reader, after which it would generate an access code which then unlocks the chip for reader access.

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