Now, jump queues at Ranchi airport with Digi Yatra app

Ranchi: Digi Yatra services have been launched at Ranchi’s Birsa Munda airport on Friday which will allow passengers flying out of the airport jump the serpentine queues at the checkpoints.
Union civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu formally inaugurated the Digi Yatra services at Visakhapatnam airport and virtually inaugurated the services at eight other airports nationwide, including Ranchi, Bagdogra (West Bengal), Coimbatore (Kerala), Dabolim (Goa), Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhatisgarh) and Bhubaneswar (Odisha).Starting with three airports across the country, the services have been expanded further and now nine more are included, totalling 24 airports across India.
“Digi Yatra simplifies the cumbersome task of managing multiple documents such as boarding passes, ID proofs and luggage tags while navigating the airport crowd,” Naidu said after the launch. “The average entry time for a passenger has now been reduced from 15 seconds to 5 seconds. More than 55 lakh users have downloaded the application, and 3 crore passengers have used it since it was first launched in New Delhi, Varanasi and Bengaluru airports on December 1, 2022,” he added.
R R Maurya, director of Ranchi airport, said, “Passengers need to download Digi Yatra app, enter their personal information and update their Aadhar Cards. When tickets are booked and downloaded, it will reflect in the application. The ticket’s bar-code needs to be scanned at the airport gates. It needs to match the details of the passenger with the airlines. After the tickets are scanned, the passenger’s face will be recognized through a software and then he or she will be let in.”
Addressing data privacy breach concerns while using the application, Naidu said, “I have mentioned it in the Lok Sabha that Digi Yatra is built on robust data security. There is no central storage of passengers’ personal identifiable information. Passenger data is stored securely in their smartphones, and is shared temporarily at the origin airport and destroyed within 24 hours of departure.”