In an effort to check forgeries and misuse of passports, the government is rolling out e-passports that will carry biometric information in a chip.
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor informed Rajya Sabha that a pilot project to issue e-passports to diplomats and officials have already been started.
"A pilot project for the issue of e-passports in the category of official and diplomatic passports has already been launched on June 25 last year," he said replying to a question.
At present, a passport contains facial imprint but the e-passport will have all the personal details, including finger-prints, of the person carrying it.
The government had asked the national informatics centre (NIC) and IIT (Kanpur) to work on the e-passport project which has successfully developed it.
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