Guwahati Airport Gets ‘Digi Yatra’ Facility

• Guwahati’s Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport (LBBI) has become the first airport in the north east to introduce the innovative ‘Digi Yatra‘ facility.
• The Digi Yatra initiative has been introduced in collaboration with the Ministry of Civil Aviation, with the goal of modernizing air travel and streamlining airport processes.

ABOUT DIGIYATRA

• It is a paperless entry at airports using facial recognition software.
• It envisages that travellers pass through various checkpoints at the airport through paperless and contactless processing, using facial features to establish their identity, which would be linked to the boarding pass.
• It is being implemented by the DigiYatra Foundation
  • Digi Yatra Foundation (DYF), is a not- for- profit company under section 8 of Companies Act 2013 incorporated on 20 February 2019.
  • Digi Yatra Foundation was set up with initial shareholding of Airport Authority of India (AAI), Cochin International Airport (CIAL), Bangalore International Airport (BIAL), Delhi International Airport Ltd. (DIAL), Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (HIAL) & Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL).