Digi Yatra to expand to 41 airports by 2025: Khadakbhavi, CEO

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. Suresh Khadakbhavi, CEO of the Digi Yatra Foundation. Summary In the coming months, Digi Yatra services are also expected to be expanded for foreign citizens. New -delhi: Digi Yatra, the app that allows domestic passengers to fast airport and boarding, wants to expand to more than 41 airports by the end of 2025. Currently, Digi Yatra can be used at 24 airports, including Metro airports such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. “We are waiting for four more airports, and within the next three to six months, Digi Yatra will live at 13 more airports. Upcoming new airports such as Navi Mumbai International Airport and Noida International Airport will live directly with Digi Yatra,” said Suresh Khadakbhavi, CEO (CEO) of the Digi Yatra Foundation. Digi Yatra, launched in December 2022, now has a user base of more than 14 million. The services are currently living at eight Private and 16 Airports Authority of Airports run by India. Read also | The supervision of DGCA detects various safety errors at airports. Flying CEO of Digi Yatra said that there are 25,000-30,000 new entries every day. “We have enabled more than 60 million trips so far and by the end of 2025 the use base will be about 20 million. The adoption rate is between 30% and 35% over Indian airports,” Khadakbhavi said. In the coming few months, Digi Yatra services are also expected to be expanded for foreign citizens. This expansion will be based on the back of an implementation of e-passport services. On June 24, the government announced the launch of E-Passport Services for Indian citizens. The e-passports are activated with a slide with biometric details. Digi Yatra is currently being tested with e-pass entry, which will also enable foreign citizens to use the services. Currently, only Indian citizens for the services can enter via their Aadhaar card, driver’s license or voter -id card. “For example, a foreign citizen who works from India can enroll in Digi Yatra using their e-Pasport faith letters. Like Indian citizens, foreign citizens will be able to use the services for domestic flights,” Khadakbhavi said. Read also | Reliance Aerostructure to manufacture Dassault’s Falcon 2000 Business Jets in India The Digi Yatra Foundation is in talks with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to sign an agreement for the same. After the agreement, there will be access to verify data with ICAO’s Public Key Guide (PKD), enabling a secure exchange of cryptographic keys related to e-Passport. Khadakbhavi looks at a three -month timeline to implement the launch. While Digi Yatra will be expanded for foreign citizens taking domestic flights, it seems difficult for the moment to enable it for international flights, Khadakbhavi said. With the involvement of multiple stakeholders such as the Foreign Ministry, the Bureau of Immigration and the Ministry of Home Affairs, this is a difficult thing, according to the Digi Yatra CEO. “When we talk about the international process, it means automatic border control, which is a sensitive area. We do not want to fail in this and a good process must be defined,” he said. He also said that with the European Union the Building EU Digital Identity Wallet could be interoperability in the future. Read also | Air India Eyes Profitability with Navy Revaluation and Customer Satisfaction Boost There has been concerns about the privacy of data in the past, including sharing and using data. However, the Digi Yatra Foundation maintained the view that the data is stored in a user’s phone and that the data shared with the airport is purified within 24 hours. “We do not save personal information in any central place; the entire data is decentralized. If one wants to hack the database, they will have to hack all the phones of all users,” Khadakbhavi added. Catch all the industry news, bank news and updates on live currency. Download the Mint News app to get daily market updates. More Topics #Aviation #Arlines Read Next Story