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Digi Yatra, a check-in service at airports based on facial recognition technology, may be implemented at hotels and public places such as historical monuments, says the chief executive officer of the Digi Yatra Foundation, Suresh Khadakbhavi.
A prototype for this use-case has been developed and discussions are on with government agencies such as the Tourism Ministry
Digi Yatra
Digi Yatra was rolled out as an entirely voluntary programme from December 2022.
In December 2022, it was rolled out at three airports, including Delhi.
Since then, it has been implemented at 11 airports, and will be expanded to 14 more in the months to come.
It is an industry-led initiative co-ordinated by the Ministry of Civil Aviation in line with Digital India's vision to transform the nation into a digitally empowered society.
It is a project conceived to achieve contactless, seamless processing of passengers at Airports, based on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT).
The project envisages that any traveller may pass through various checkpoints at the airport through a paperless and contactless processing, using facial features to establish the identity which would be linked to the boarding pass.
It provides a decentralized mobile wallet-based identity management platform which is cost effective and addresses privacy/data protection issues in implementation of Digi Yatra
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