The facility will be launched at Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Lucknow, Jaipur, and Guwahati airports in the month of August, said the government in a press statement issued on Friday.
With this, the number of Digi Yatra-enabled airports will increase to thirteen.
Digiyatra was launched in December last year at New Delhi, Varanasi, and Bengaluru airports. Later on four more airports, Vijayawada, Pune, Hyderabad, and Kolkata were added to the list. Upto August 10, about 3.4 million passengers have used this facility.
Digi Yatra is a mobile application-based facility for contactless, seamless processing of passengers at airports based on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). Passengers can clear various checkpoints at the airport as the technology uses facial features to validate the flyer’s identity and travel details. “In the Digi Yatra process, there is no central storage of passenger’s Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data. All the passengers’ data is 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 is purged from the airport’s system within 24 hours of departure of the flight. The data is shared by passengers directly, only when they travel and only to the origin airport,” the government said.