In order to provide a seamless and paperless entry at the airports, the civil aviation ministry launched the Digi Yatra policy at three airports including Delhi, Varanasi, and Bengaluru.

Under the policy passengers at the mentioned airports will now have to go through Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) at the different security checkpoints to avoid extra time for check-in.

The civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia on Thursday inaugurated the Digi Yatra Policy at New Delhi airport. He also tweeted and said the Delhi airport got the opportunity to inaugurate Digi Yatra at T3 to make air travel more convenient.

The service, based on the Facial Recognition System (FRS), will provide contactless convenience to passengers at the airport.

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What is the Digi Yatra policy? Know everything about it

Under the newly launched Digi Yatra policy by the civil aviation ministry, it allows the passenger to pass through different checkpoints such as Entry point checks, Entry into Security Checks, and Aircraft Boarding without any documents. With the help of this policy, passengers’ facial recognition to identify pax and data recall will them to not show many documents during security checks and able to enjoy paperless travel.

How to enrol for the new Digi Yatra policy?

All the passengers are required to download an application (available for both IOS and Android users) to use the facility. Follow the steps below to enrol for the Digi Yatra service.

• First, passengers are required to download the application, after which it will ask them to create a Digi Yatra ID.
• After creating an ID, customers will have to enter their phone numbers. An OTP will be received on the same number to process further.
• At the lower right of the application, after clicking on the plus (r) symbol, the user can create his/her identity either through Digilocker or through Offline Aadhaar
• in either case, the passenger’s face is captured and matched with the face impression received from the Aadhaar database
• Once the match gets successful, the application will create a credential for the passenger and is saved on their data Digi Yatra profile in a central system.

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