E-passport from July

Bangladeshi passport

Dhaka: E-passport to be launched in Bangladesh in July this year. A Memorandum of Understanding has already been signed with a German company. When this service is launched, Bangladesh will enter the new era. A 'chip' of passport will be made easy by modern technology.

It is known that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has already approved the sample copy of the e-passport (Specimen copy). Another major breakthrough for the Prime Minister is to move forward with the world.

Currently, e-passports or electronic passports are introduced in 118 countries in the world. As a country of 119, Bangladesh will continue to enter the era of e-passport during the period. The e-passport as a security mark will have an eye-opener photograph and fingerprint. All the information about the passport holder will be stored in the chips on the page. The result will be difficult to conceal identity.

Now the owner of machine readable passport (MRP) owned by around two crore people in the country. Every day 20 thousand people are applying for a passport. Passport offices are struggling to pass the passports over time. Work is still underway with the machines being used in the machine readable passport (MRP) in 2010. Most of these machines are crippled. According to the source, the government decided to introduce e-passports along with MRP in 2016. At the same time the decision to extend the passport expired. According to the decision that from the day the e-passport is launched, e-passport will be required to renew the MRP passport. E-passport is open in 118 countries including the United Kingdom, USA, Europe and Canada. At present, a fee of 3 thousand and six thousand rupees is required to pay a common passport and passport. Validity five years.

According to the advice of the Prime Minister, the activities of the e-passport are speeding forward, the Home Secretary (Security Services Division) Farid