Lok Sabha Question No. 1630 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-05
Subject: Implementation of Digi Yatra
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: Shri Prabhakar Reddy Vemireddy, Shri Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION

## Lok Sabha

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. : 1630

( TO BE ANSWERED ON THE  5th December 2024 )

## IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGI YATRA

1630.    SHRI PRABHAKAR REDDY VEMIREDDY SHRI MAGUNTA SREENIVASULU REDDY Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

be pleased to state:-

- (a)  the  details  of  airports  wherein  Digi  Yatra  services  are  fully functional/under implementation and proposed to be made functional across the country, State-wise;
- (b)  the  number  of  passengers  who  have  registered  for  Digi  Yatra services  during  the  last  five  years  in  the  country,  State-wise, especially in Andhra Pradesh;
- (c) whether the Government has undertaken any steps to increase the  number  of  Digi  Yatra  users  across  the  country  and  if  so,  the details thereof; and
- (d) the steps undertaken by the Government to provide proper data security  to  the  sensitive  information  of  passengers  who  use  Digi Yatra in the country?

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL  AVIATION (Shri Murlidhar Mohol)

- (a): Presently, Digi Yatra is available at 24 airports. Further, it is to be introduced at airports across country in a phased manner. The list of airports covered by Digi Yatra is at Annexure.;

;

- (b): Since its launch in  December  2022,  more  than  80  lakh passengers have registered on the Digi Yatra Application. The Digi

Yatra Central Ecosystem and the Digi Yatra Apps are built on the fundamental  tenets  of  Privacy  by  Design  (PbD)  and  there  is  no central  storage  of  passenger's  Personally  Identifiable  Information (PII)  data.  Registration  on  the  Digi  Yatra  App  is  done  on  user's mobile phone, irrespective of the State.; ; (c) To give wide publicity to Digi Yatra, Airport Operators and Airline Operators  are  doing  in-flight  announcements,  providing  help  desk support  and  displaying  banner  and  videos,  etc.  at  the  airports. Publicity  is  also  being  done  through  Social  Media  to  encourage passenger to use Digi Yatra for seamless and hassle free access at the airports.; ; (d): To provide proper data security in Digi Yatra, by design/default, there  is  no  central  storage  of  passenger's  Personally  Identifiable Information  (PII)  data.  All  the    passenger  data  is  encrypted  and stored in the passenger's smartphone wallet and shared only for a limited  time  duration  with  the  origin  airport  where  passenger  ID needs to be validated. The data is purged from the system after 24 hours of the departure of the flight.

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## State-wise list of Digi Yatra enabled airports

|   Sr. No. | State/UT       | Airport          |
|-----------|----------------|------------------|
|         1 | Delhi          | Delhi            |
|         2 | Karnataka      | Bangalore        |
|         3 | Uttar Pradesh  | Varanasi         |
|         3 | Uttar Pradesh  | Lucknow          |
|         4 | Telangana      | Hyderabad        |
|         5 | West Bengal    | Kolkata          |
|         5 | West Bengal    | Bagdogra         |
|         6 | Maharashtra    | Pune             |
|         6 | Maharashtra    | Mumbai           |
|         7 | Andhra Pradesh | Vijayawada Vizag |
|         8 | Kerala         | Cochin           |
|         9 | Gujarat        | Ahmedabad        |
|        10 | Assam          | Guwahati         |
|        11 | Rajasthan      | Jaipur           |
|        12 | Tamil Nadu     | Chennai          |
|        12 | Tamil Nadu     | Coimbatore       |
|        13 | Goa            | Mopa Goa         |
|        13 | Goa            | Dabolim          |
|        14 | Madhya Pradesh | Indore           |
|        15 | Odisha         | Bhubaneswar      |
|        16 | Bihar          | Patna            |
|        17 | Chhattisgarh   | Raipur           |
|        18 | Jharkhand      | Ranchi           |

## Annexure