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The government began issuing e-passports on November 20.
The Passport Department is performing final testing in preparation for e-passport printing at the department’s new premises in Tripureshwar.
Nepal has already issued Machine Readable Passports (MRP).
According to Sharad Raj Arun, the department’s spokeswoman, the distribution of e-passports will begin between the special ceremonies on November 20.
The department has not said that it will begin with Ko.
“We only release a limited amount of e-passports on a daily basis for the first few days,” said Aaron, a representative.
The government intends to transition e-passport distribution to full service within a week, with partial service beginning on November 20.
The department is prepared to distribute both types of passports at first in order to migrate the data from the MRP system to the new system and to make the printing job more efficient
The Passport Department signed into a purchase deal with IDEMIA Identity and Security of France on December 20, 2020, for the production of e-passports at a cost of Rs 2.48 billion.
The deal required the corporation to finish all work for the distribution of e-passports within 10 months.
The department was able to complete its task on schedule and under budget.
Passport security meets international standards
E-passports are presently popular across the world.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has declared e-passports to be safe.
MRP is inferior to electronic passports in terms of security and reliability.
It is also regarded as trustworthy since it employs high-quality technologies.
Electronic ‘chips,’ similar to cellphone SIMs, are used in e-passports.
It stores biometric data as well as personal information about the passport bearer.
Its’security characteristic’ is usually tight.
This passport is easily readable by machine or computer.
The introduction of e-passports, which contain biometrics in electronic data, is supposed to alleviate the problem of passport misuse.
These biological signals do not correlate with one another (with exceptions).
That is why the government anticipates resolving the issue of holding a passport issued in the name of someone else.
Because the government would collect all citizens’ biometric information by issuing national identity cards, creating passports in the name of others will be extremely difficult if there is no biometric match.
When another person’s passport arrives at the airport, the biometric is immediately rejected by the system.
If this is done, it will be simpler to prevent people from going overseas on the passports of others and committing numerous crimes.
What does a passport look like?
Nepal’s e-passport would include 64 pages, according to the cabinet meeting’s resolution.
On those sites, the government has included images of heritage, culture, livelihood, wildlife, and locations.
The national flags of Danphe and Nepal were agreed to be shown on the interior pages of the e-first passports and last covers.
Sagarmatha will appear on page one.
The data for polycarbonate will be on the second page.
The third will feature Lumbini, the fourth and fifth will feature Rashtrapati Bhavan, the sixth and seventh will feature a one-horned rhinoceros, the eighth and ninth will feature Changunarayan temple, the tenth and eleventh will feature Ilam tea plantation, and the left and thirteenth will feature a photograph of Laligunras.
On the 14th and 15th, there will be images of the Pashupatinath temple, on the 16th and 17th, Mithila art, and on the 18th and 19th, paddy sowing.
Kumari will be open on the 20th and 21st, Upper Mustang on the 22nd and 23rd, Tiger on the 24th and 25th, Jumla’s Sinja Valley on the 26th and 27th, Deshay Maru Jya on the 28th and 29th, and Janaki Temple on the 30th and 31st.
On the 38th and 39th, photos of Ranipokhari and Hanumandhoka Durbar will be kept.
Dharara appears on the 40th and 41st pages, Bhurtika Dewal appears on the 42nd and 43rd, Patan Durbar area appears on the 44th and 45th, Putali appears on the 46th and 47th, Bouddhanath appears on the 48th and 49th, Bhaktapur Durbar area appears on the 50th and 51st, Mahakali Bridge appears on the 52nd and 53rd, and Krishnasara appears on the 54th and 55th
Trucking will be depicted in 56 and 57 (the region near Everest’s Lubuche), Rani Mahal at 58 and 59, Rara Lake at 60 and 61, Upper Tamakoshi at 62 and 63, and Singha Durbar at 64.
Alternative views included Tilicho Lake, Cefoxundo Lake, the Khaptad Patan region, Phewa Lake in the shadow of Machhapuchhre, and the Upper Tamakoshi transmission line.
