What is Digi Yatra?

Digi Yatra is a facility that allows passengers to link their travel, identity documents with a facial scan – doing away with the need for them to show their boarding passes or ID cards at the airport

WHAT IT PLANS TO ACHIEVE

It is conceived to achieve contactless, seamless processing of passengers based on facial recognition technology. Officials say it will help drastically cut down queues and waiting times at security check and boarding gates

ENTRY GATE

First, you scan your boarding pass at the E-gate

You will be asked to stand in a marked area, facing a camera which captures your facial data The gate opens as your facial data matches the boarding pass