{"id":1014,"date":"2026-03-25T04:27:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:27:58","slug":"digi-yatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/digi-yatra\/","title":{"rendered":"Digi Yatra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#199668\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Digi Yatra<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>About<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Launched by the\u00a0<strong>Ministry of Civil Aviation\u00a0<\/strong>in\u00a0<strong>2022<\/strong>, Digi Yatra is a\u00a0<strong>biometric-enabled digital processing system<\/strong>\u00a0that allows\u00a0<strong>air\u00a0travellers\u00a0to pass through various checkpoints at airports using facial recognition<\/strong>\u00a0instead of physical IDs or boarding passes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Currently available at major airports like Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Mumbai (with more to come),\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0a part of India&#8217;s vision to create<strong>\u00a0smart airports.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Biometric data<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>only used for verification<\/strong>\u00a0during boarding and is<strong>\u00a0deleted\u00a0within 24 hours of departure.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digi Yatra About<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-initiatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}