Inside India's e-passport: A modern travel document
India just launched e-passports—basically, high-tech passports with a built-in RFID chip holding your photo, fingerprints, and personal info.
It's all about making travel safer and smoother, as part of the government's push to modernize services under the Passport Seva Programme and Viksit Bharat mission.
How do these e-passports work?
These e-passports use advanced tech (think Public Key Infrastructure) to keep your data secure and make it tough for anyone to forge.
At airports, your biometrics get matched instantly at electronic gates for quicker immigration checks.
Plus, since they're recognized by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), you can breeze through international travel without extra manual checks.
Don't worry if you have an old passport—it stays valid until it expires while e-passports roll out in phases.