After U.S. tests, India to get first e-passport in June
"We hope to issue the first e-passport around June 15, to the president or the prime minister," the official said.
For example, to prevent anybody from reading the passport from afar, other countries prescribe that the document should be carried in a metal jacket.
But the Indian e-passport cannot be read unless it comes into contact with the 'reading' machine.
"The Indian passport will have to be first skimmed so that a code is generated. That code then unlocks the chip for the information to be read on the chip," said the official.
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