Centre ‘chips’ in to aid avail of passport
The Centre will roll out chip embedded e-passports, which can be incorporated with passports so that the information can be verified electronically, in the first phase by next year. The fully-digitised passports could even be carried in mobile phones in the next phase, said Minister of state for External Affairs VK Singh said.
By : migrator
Update: 2016-09-28 19:49 GMT
Chennai
VK Singh said that facilities for e-passports were being installed and it is expected that all fresh passports to be issued from next year would have the chips incorporated in it. The minister also said that once the delay in police verification process is sorted out through electronic passing of information, the time required for issuing passports could be minimised.
Singh said the restrictions imposed on overseas recruitment of female domestic workers had helped curb the exploitation in the sector.
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