Kathmandu, 5 September: The Foreign Ministry is preparing to introduce e-passport by June next year. The Ministry has started the passport printing process.
The Passport General Department has called international bidding for printing 5 million copies of the e-passport at the first phase.
After one year, the present machine readable passports (MRPs) have also to be renewed through the e-passport process.
According to Tirthataj Aryal, information officer at the Passport General Department, the e-passport will be equipped with a chip having personal details, finger prints, photograph of the passport holder, according to Kantipur daily.
People’s News Monitoring Service
