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E-gates to be introduced to ease travel: Karan

September 23, 2019 6:55 am

After the roll out of the e-passports the focus is now on introducing e-gates.

The Permanent Secretary for the Prime Minister’s office Yogesh Karan says before e-gates are introduced there needs to be enough number of e-passports in the country.

He adds this will make travelling easy as the e-passports will be used at the e-gates instead of having the physical passports checked by border force officers.

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_“What we want to do certainly is introduce e-gates as soon as possible. But before e-gates we must have enough number of e passports in the country otherwise, if we get the machines there and you don’t have the right passport so it won’t be of much use.”_

Karan says they hope to complete e-gates by the end of next year.