April,5,2017:

It is aimed at making all airport processes e-enabled.

Government has asked IT Major Wipro to develop a blueprint for Aadhaar-based biometric access for the flyers at all the airports across India.

Wipro is expected to give report by early May and then the airports will begin process of a passenger's thumb being all identification he or she requires to fly for the Domestic flights as International fights would need passports.

Aviation Ministry had been toying with idea of linking Aadhaar numbers to the air travel bookings and then enabling biometric access possible at the Airports.

Push towards taking the concrete step in this direction came at a recent meeting of various airport operators and airlines with the Aviation Minister Jayant Sinha and Aviation Secretary R N Choubey.

"It was felt a joint system be developed that can be replicated by all the airports. Wipro has been asked to develop concept note in this regard after consulting all the stakeholders, including the JV airport operators. We are seeing what all airport processes that can be made e-enabled," stated Airport Authority of India (AAI) Chairman Guruprasad Mohapatra.

AAI chief, stated that passengers give their Aadhaar numbers at time of booking tickets. "Once they reach airport they are flying out of, flyers can just keep their thumb on the touch pad at entry point. Once inside, a similar process can be repeated at the other places like check-in. We want the passengers to have as seamless and effortless travel experience at the airports as possible," Mohapatra added.

Due to the security considerations, flyers in India have to show an ID card along with their tickets to be allowed inside the airport terminals.

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