Responding to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs V Muraleedharan said measures have been put in place by the ministry to prevent usage of fake passports. He said the government has changed the design of Indian Passports with reverse stitching and non-tearable papers to make it more secure. Installation of Immigration Control System (ICS) software which verifies the passport details of passengers to prevent impersonation is on of the steps taken by the government, he said. Other measures taken to make passports more secure include introduction of Supplementary Letter Screen Image (LSI) to prevent any forgery in data pages. Citizens have been advised to use the official passport portal of the Ministry in order to avail passport related services," he said.

Source: Mint July 04, 2019 16:52 UTC