E-Chip-based Passports on Cards, Telangana RPO gears up to launch

Good news for Telangana passport applicants: Soon, you can fly using electronic chip-based passports. The Telangana Regional Passport Office is making necessary arrangements following the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) instructions to launch ‘e-Chip Passports’ in Hyderabad.

The MEA selected Hyderabad as one of the 12 centres in India under a pilot project to launch the newly



introduced e-Chip Passports. The other 11 states include Chennai, Nagpur, Bhubaneswar, Jammu, Goa, Shimla, Raipur, Amritsar, Jaipur, Surat, and Ranchi.

Though the MEA announced the launch of e-Chip-based passports some time back, the project could not take off in time due to multiple reasons. According to sources in the RPO, Telangna, the new passports are likely to be launched shortly.