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DIGI YATRA LAUNCHED AT THREE AIRPORTS:

YOUR FACE IS THE BOARDING PASS

or ease in life, it is necessary that whatever
Fservice we take it should also be seamless.
Keeping the same in mind, the DIGI Yatra for easy
air travel was launched by Union Civil Aviation
Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on December
1. Now you don't have to wait long and do the
paperwork to get your boarding pass. The DIGI
Yatra-Facial Recognition System (FRT) currently
launched for New Delhi, Varanasi, and Bengaluru
airports will also be rolled out at Hyderabad, HIGHLIGHTS OF DIGI YATRA
Kolkata, Pune, and Vijayawada airports by March DIGI Yatra App is available on iOS and Android
2023. Then gradually it will be implemented in platforms.
the entire country. DIGI Yatra is a decentralized This voluntary facility requires one-time
mobile wallet-based identity management registration on the DIGI Yatra app with
platform. Your face will be your boarding pass in verification through an Aadhaar card and
this paperless and contactless system. Only the your photograph.
face has to be shown at the time of entry and There is no central storage of Personal
security check. At present, it has been started Identifiable Information (PII) for privacy.
only for passengers on domestic flights. With the The data will be deleted from the server in 24
launch of DIGI Yatra, India has joined the ranks of hours, and ID and travel details are stored in
world-class airports such as Heathrow in London the secure wallet of the passenger.
and Atlanta in the United States.

Guinness Book of World Records

Metro rail and highway flyover on a single column

oving towards achieving of Metrorail and highway flyover on a
Mthe resolve to develop single column. Union Road Transport
world-class infrastructure in and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari
the country, new infrastructure has congratulated the team of the
records are being created in National Highways Authority of India
India. The country is setting new and Maharashtra Metro for achieving
records- the world's highest rail the record of getting registered its
bridge was built on the Chenab name in the Guinness Book of World
river, which is 259 meters high Records by constructing the longest
from the river bed, construction of 37 kilometers of double-decker bridge (3.14 km). The project
highways every day in addition to the construction has already been featured in the Asia Book and
of more than 25 kilometers of single-lane roads in India Book of Records. He has said that such
18 hours which has been registered in the Guinness development works are fulfilling the promise of
Book of World Records. And now the country has set world-class infrastructure projects made by Prime
a new record for the longest double-decker bridge Minister Narendra Modi.

4 New India Samachar January 1-15, 2023