Digi Yatra rollout at 2 airports in August; passengers to authenticate through FRT

Digi Yatra, a contactless, seamless processing of passengers at Airports, based on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is all set to be rolled out at two airports in the country in August 2022.

As per official sources, Digi Yatra is proposed to be rolled out at Varanasi and Bengaluru airports next month. Subsequently, five airports namely Pune, Vijayawada, Kolkata, Delhi and Hyderabad will be added by March next year.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will identify their airports where Digi Yatra would be implemented in phased manner. As per PIB, the Consultative Committee meeting of Ministry of Civil Aviation was held in New Delhi today.

The topic for discussion was ‘DIGI YATRA’. Members of Parliament, who are members of the committee, took part in the meeting and made certain valuable suggestions about the project.

Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M Scindia said 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,” said Scindia.