India’s e-passport rollout to start by end of year: All you need to know

IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will roll out chip-based e-passports by the end of this year, a news report said. The company will also set up a new command and control centre with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and a new data centre that will support all the backend requirements of the project, a report by The Economic Times said.

TCS is working on a passport project with the government as earlier this year, the MEA renewed its 10-year Passport Seva Kendras (PSK) deal worth more than Rs 6,000 crore with the firm. The project is India’s largest mission-critical governance programme to date, the report said.