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The CEO of digital payments company One97 Communications Limited, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, on Friday applauded the installation of DigiYatra, a digital travel experience that allows passengers to navigate airports seamlessly. He said he wouldn't mind paying a monthly fee, and also ranked the facility above Twitter Blue, which has now become a premium subscription service. Read here: DigiYatra App: follow these steps to avoid queues at airports "DigiYatra is so good I don't mind paying a monthly subscription! I really feel privileged to use it in T3. In my opinion the benefit of DigiYatra is much more valuable than #TwitterBlue in India," Sharma tweeted.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched the DigiYatra service to make air travel contactless and hassle-free for travelers. It is a biometric boarding system that uses facial recognition technology to provide a smooth and hassle-free experience for passengers at airports.
To use the facility, passengers must first register their face on the DigiYatra app and validate it using Aadhaar.
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In the first phase, the DigiYatra installation was introduced at three airports: Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) in Delhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport in Varanasi and Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru on December 1, 2022.
In March, the technology was rolled out in Hyderabad, Pune, Vijayawada and Kolkata.
Meanwhile, Twitter began removing blue checks from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee to keep them. Many eminent personalities like Sachin Tendulkar, Amitabh Bachchan, MS Dhoni and others who chose not to pay for the verified badge are losing control. Vijay Shekhar Sharma is among those who paid and thus still retains his blue tick on Twitter.
