Over 80 lakh e-passports have been issued in India since May 2025, when the country fully switched to the next-generation chipped passports under Passport Seva Programme Version 2.0, a senior official said on Monday.

MEA official said, "Every citizen who is applying for a new passport or renewal will now receive an e-passport. Since 28 May 2025, all passports issued in India are e-passports.

The e-passport contains an RFID chip

embedded in the last page with a smart card memory and an indigenously designed operating system.

The chip stores demographic and biometric data in read-only format and has undergone composite certification as per international standards.

Version 2.0 compares live biometric data of the applicant with the data already available in the system, making impersonatio

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