Every Indian will get an E-Passport.

The Indian Government has announced that from next year all passports shall be moved to be present in soft-copy. Already a success?

After boarding tickets went digital something similar yet totally different might happen in the upcoming year. The Indian government did a 20,000 individual test for understanding the use of e-passports. The test was done on diplomats and government officials and has been successful in operation. The government will roll out all individual online passports next year. Thus, all citizens would have online passports ready and in their hands in 2021.

If you will apply for a passport or attempt to renew the existing one next year then you will be returned an online copy. This is likely to reduce all fogery issues and increase the spead of immigration at the airports. These passports would follow the (ICAO) laws, which are the International Civil Aviation Organisation which has set certain standards for the digital passport.

It is understood that all 36 passport generation offices in India will equipped with the facilities to provide the online passports. The passport requirements, documents, checklists, etc. do not change just the form does. The government is looking at generation 10,000-20,000 e-passports every hour. The IT requirements for servers would be placed in Delhi and Chennai towards the end of this year.

This large change in our travels will obviously impact the nation very differently. The hassle decreases, losing your passport, or even forgetting it should not be an issue as our phones don't lose our sides. We might also skip the scary officers sitting on the other side of the immigration platforms, but this does ruin certain factors in the Indian economy.

Currently due to the large paper based process of the passports, there are immense jobs which are being created, moving from the local printer bhaiya to the person who is stamping your passport at the end. This change eliminates a large amount of peopel in the chain, which can be hurtful to the Indian labour and middle class.

This action, however on the flip side changes the slow moving nature of the Indian government and docuemnt based checks. One can only hope for the best but also realise the possibility of hacking, the list for pros and cons therefore is never ending, there are new perspectives everywhere, but one thing we can know for sure that this change is large, and it will be the first of many.