Aadhar Card your access to a plane

The Government of India has asked the leading IT Company Wipro to develop a blueprint of an application that will link Aadhar card with the aerospace of India. Wipro has received the orders to make a blueprint of an Aadhar linked biometric app that will allow access to the flyers at all the airports in India. The report shall be submitted by Wipro in the early May and then all the airports will get the installation. This will mark the start of a new era as the passenger's thumb would be the only identification a flyer would require for any domestic travel. However, for international flights, passport remains the primary document. 

The aviation ministry of India was contemplating the idea of linking Aadhar numbers and the online booking platform and thus initiating the biometric access portal for all the flyers entering the airport since long. The idea was put into paper and forwarded after a recent meeting between various airport operators and major airlines with aviation minister Jayant Sinha and aviation secretary R N Choubey.

 "It was felt a joint system be developed that can be replicated by all airports. Wipro has been asked to develop a concept note in this regard after consulting all stakeholders, including the JV airport operators. We are seeing what all airport processes can be made e-enabled," Airports Authority of India (AAI) chairman Guruprasad Mohapatra told a leading Indian news source. 

The concept is that the passenger would provide his/her Adhaar number while booking the tickets, which will be further, linked with the biometric. "Once they reach the airport they are flying out of, flyers can just keep their thumb on touch pad at the entry point. Once inside, a similar process can be repeated at other places like check-in. We want passengers to have as seamless and effortless travel experience at airports as possible," Mohapatra said. 

Currently, the flyers have to show a valid ID Proof along with their tickets to meet the security provisions.

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