Parliament Question: Expansion of Digi Yatra Platform

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. : 273 ( TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 6th August 2026 ) EXPANSION OF DIGI YATRA PLATFORM 273. SHRI RAHUL SINGH LODHI SHRI KHAGEN MURMU Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION be pleased to state:- (a) whether the Government has undertaken measures to expand the Digi Yatra platform across additional airports in the country and if so, the details thereof; (b) the measures undertaken to enhance the accessibility of the platform including support for regional languages and other passenger-friendly features; (c) whether the Government has undertaken any assessment regarding the impact of Digi Yatra on passenger facilitation and airport operations and if so, the details thereof; and (d) the measures adopted to strengthen data privacy, cybersecurity and secure biometric authentication under the Digi Yatra ecosystem? ANSWER Minister of CIVIL AVIATION (Shri Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu) (a) to (d): A statement is laid on the table of the house. ******STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (A) TO (D) IN RESPECT OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 273 FOR REPLY ON 06.08.2026 REGARDING EXPANSION OF DIGI YATRA PLATFORM ASKED BY SHRI RAHUL SINGH LODHI AND SHRI KHAGEN MURMU (a) to (d): The Government has undertaken a phased expansion of the Digi Yatra ecosystem. Starting with 3 airports in December 2022, Digi Yatra is now available at 39 airports. Digi Yatra has been designed as a citizen-centric platform focusing on accessibility, inclusivity and ease of use. Several passenger-friendly features are available in Digi Yatra, including, Driving Licence-based enrolment through DigiLocker and multilingual support. Apart from English, 11 Indian languages namely Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Gujarati, Odia, Assamese, Sanskrit and Malayalam are supported in Digi Yatra app. Further, the Digi Yatra ecosystem is continuously improved based on passenger feedback received through customer support channels and airport interactions. Digi Yatra provides seamless, hassle-free and faster passenger processing, saving approximately 50% of the passenger's time at different checkpoints at the airports, as compared to manual validation, which helps in addressing congestion at the airports. Since launch, Digi Yatra app has been downloaded over 2.5 Crore times and it has been used more than 10.75 Crore times by passengers to travel through Digi Yatra enabled airports. The Digi Yatra Central Ecosystem (DYCE) is built on the fundamental tenets of privacy. Digi Yatra app is built on privacy by design and there is no central storage of passenger's Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data, thereby mitigating issues of data loss, theft and leakage. 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 the passenger's ID needs to be validated. The data is purged from the system within 24 hours of the scheduled departure time of the flight. Digi Yatra complies with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Rules made thereunder. Regular security assessments, vulnerability assessments and audits are undertaken to strengthen the overall security posture of the platform. These measures ensure that Digi Yatra remains a secure, privacy-preserving and trusted digital identity platform for seamless passenger processing. *****