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19/07/22 05:26 AM IST

‘DIGI YATRA’ project

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  • Consultative Committee of Ministry of Civil Aviation discusses ‘DIGI YATRA’ project.
Digi Yatra 
  • It is a project conceived to achieve contactless, seamless processing of passengers at Airports, based on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT).
  • The project basically envisages that any traveller may pass through various check points at the airport through a paperless and contactless processing, using facial features to establish the identity which would be linked to the boarding pass.
  • The privacy issues have been taken care of in the system.
  • It provides for decentralized mobile wallet-based identity management platform which is cost effective and addresses privacy/data protection issues in implementation of Digi Yatra. 
  • In first phase, Digi Yatra is proposed to be rolled out at two Airports namely Varanasi and Bengaluru in August 2022.
DYF 
  • Digi Yatra Foundation (DYF) has been set up as a joint venture (JV) company in  2019 under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 whose shareholders are AAI (26% shares) and BIAL, DIAL, GHIAL, MIAL and CIAL. 
  • DYF will be a pan-India entity and the custodian of the Passenger ID validation process.
  • It will also develop consensus amongst the Aviation Stakeholders in India.
  • It would also define the criteria for compliance and guidelines for the local airport systems. 
Source- PIB 

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