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12 Aug 2023

Digi Yatra To Be Launched At These Six More Airports; How Digi Yatra-Enabled Airports Are Good For Passengers


New Delhi: Digi Yatra facility will be launched at 6 more airports namely Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Lucknow, Jaipur, and Guwahati airports in the month of August 2023. The implementation and installation of Digi Yatra infrastructure at these airports will take place in a phased manner.


Number of Digi Yatra-enabled airports will increase to 13


Since its launch by Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya on December 1, 2022, at three airports, New Delhi, Varanasi, and Bengaluru, Digi Yatra has been implemented at four more airports, Vijayawada, Pune, Hyderabad, and Kolkata increasing the number of Digi Yatra airports to seven. With the addition of the aforementioned six airports, the total number of Digi Yatra-enabled airports will become thirteen.


34.6 lakh passengers have used the Digi Yatra facility


By August 10, 2023, Digi Yatra has been used by 34 lakh 60,454 passengers. By the same date, the Digi Yatra mobile application user base was 12.9 lakh



Digi Yatra is a mobile application-based facility conceived to achieve contactless, seamless processing of passengers at airports based on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). 


Paperless, contactless boarding


It helps travelers pass through various checkpoints at the airports through paperless and contactless processing using facial features to validate their identity and travel details.


In the Digi Yatra process, there is no central storage of passenger's Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data. All the passengers' data is encrypted and stored in the wallet of their smartphone. 


It is shared only between the passenger and the airport of travel origin, where the passenger's Digi Yatra ID needs to be validated. 


The data is removed from the airport's system within 24 hours of departure of the flight. The data is shared by passengers directly, only when they travel and only to the origin Airport.


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