(IBNS): Digi Yatra facility will be launched at six more airports namely Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Lucknow, Jaipur, and Guwahati airports in the month of August, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Friday.
The implementation and installation of Digi Yatra infrastructure at these airports will take place in a phased manner.
Digi Yatra is a mobile application-based facility conceived to achieve contactless, seamless processing of passengers at airports based on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT).
It helps travelers pass through various checkpoints at the airports through paperless and contactless processing using facial features to validate their identity and travel details.
Digi Yatra facility was launched on December 1, 2022, at three airports, New Delhi, Varanasi, and Bengaluru, and later on four more airports–Vijayawada, Pune, Hyderabad, and Kolkata–were added, increasing the number of Digi Yatra airports to seven.
With the addition of these six airports, the total number of Digi Yatra-enabled airports will become thirteen.
Till August 10, 2023, Digi Yatra has been used by 34,60,454 passengers and the Digi Yatra mobile application user base stood at 1.29 million.
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The main feature of the Digi Yatra process is that there is no central storage of passenger’s Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data. All the passengers’ data are encrypted and stored in the wallet of their smartphone.
It is shared only between the passenger and the airport of travel origin, where the passenger’s Digi Yatra ID needs to be validated. The data are purged from the airport’s system within 24 hours of departure of the flight and shared by passengers directly, only when they travel and only to the origin airport.
