The government has announced to start Digi Yatra facility on Friday i.e. 12 August 2023 at six more airports including Mumbai and Kochi. Digi Yatra service is currently available at seven airports across the country.
It was first launched on December 1, 2022 at the airports of Delhi, Varanasi and Bengaluru. A release has also been issued by the Ministry of Civil Aviation regarding this.
what is written in the release
The Civil Aviation Ministry in a release said that the Digi Yatra facility will be launched in August 2023 at six more airports namely Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Lucknow, Jaipur and Guwahati airports. The implementation and installation of Digi Yatra infrastructure at these airports will happen in a phased manner.
The facility will allow contactless and seamless movement of passengers by checking them at various points at airports based on facial recognition, FRT.
At present so many lakh passengers have used it
According to the ministry, till August 10, 3.46 million i.e. about 30 lakh 46 thousand passengers have used the Digi Yatra facility. At present Digi Yatra facility is also available in Vijayawada, Pune, Hyderabad and Kolkata.
Under this facility, the data of passengers is encrypted and not stored centrally. It is shared only between the passenger and the airport of travel origin, where it is necessary to validate the passenger’s Digi Travel ID. Data is removed from airport systems within 24 hours of flight departure.
What is DigiYatra?
DigiYatra is a unique facial recognition system that enables contactless, seamless travel for passengers at airports. With this, passengers will be able to pass through different check points without any contact, for which their face will be used.
The process will take less than three seconds at each touchpoint. In this facility, the passenger’s face will serve as his document ID proof, vaccine proof and boarding pass.
