{"id":173191,"date":"2025-06-12T14:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=173191"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:26:39","slug":"india-launches-chip-based-e-passports-to-enhance-travel-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-launches-chip-based-e-passports-to-enhance-travel-security\/","title":{"rendered":"India Launches Chip-Based E-Passports to Enhance Travel Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India has launched chip-based e-passports featuring RFID chips and biometric data, aimed at boosting travel security and global standardization.<br>Rolled out under Passport Seva Programme 2.0, the initiative also brings new rules effective from 2025, including mandatory birth certificates, digital residential addresses, and removal of parents\u2019 names from passports.<br>This marks a major step in India\u2019s digital governance and commitment to secure international mobility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Features of Chip-Based E-Passports<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Embedded RFID Chip &amp; Antenn<\/strong>a: Stores biometric and personal data securely.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Enhanced Security<\/strong>: Difficult to forge or duplicate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scannable Barcode<\/strong>: For digital access to residential addresses by immigration officers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Objectives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Improve passport security and global compatibility.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Streamline immigration processes and reduce fraud.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Support digital India and paperless governance goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Implementation and Rollout<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Pilot Launch:<\/strong>\u00a0April 1, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cities Currently Issuing E-Passports:<\/strong>\u00a0Chennai, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Amritsar, Goa, Raipur, Surat, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Jammu, and Shimla.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Issued through selected Regional Passport Offices (RPOs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Passport Rules (2025)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Birth Certificate Mandatory:<\/strong>\u00a0For those born on or after October 1, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R<strong>esidential Address Digitally Embedded:<\/strong>\u00a0No longer printed on the last page.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Parents\u2019 Names Removed:<\/strong>\u00a0Personal data now streamlined to only essential information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has launched chip-based e-passports featuring RFID chips and biometric data, aimed at boosting travel security and global standardization.Rolled out under Passport Seva Programme 2.0, the initiative also brings new rules effective from 2025, including mandatory birth certificates, digital residential addresses, and removal of parents\u2019 names from passports.This marks a major step in India\u2019s digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":173192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5372],"tags":[4916],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-173191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2025","tag-national-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173193,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173191\/revisions\/173193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173191"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=173191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}