March 28, 2024, Thursday

E-passport is being issued from today; here are the features of it

E-passport is being issued from today; here are the features of it

The government is going to issue e-passport from today. The electronic passport is being formally issued from the office of the passport department at Tripureshwor from today. At present, Machine Readable Passport (MRP) is in vogue in Nepal. These passports will be completely removed within a week. Old ones will also be recognized after displacement.

It uses a chip. It also contains biometric data along with personal details, which makes it easy for the computer to read. It is believed that biometric data will solve the problem of misuse of passports.

The 64-page e-passport will have the national flag of Danphe and Nepal on the inside page of the first and last cover. Similarly, the first page will have Mount Everest, the second will have polycarbonate data, the third will have Lumbini, the fourth and fifth will have Rashtrapati Bhawan, and the sixth and seventh pages will have pictures of unicorns.