In December, when air travel is typically at its peak, a decision was taken to ramp up the enrolment for DigiYatra.
DigiYatra allows passengers to use their face as their boarding pass, to zip through various checkpoints at an airport. It is not owned by the Government, but by a consortium of private and government airports. It
But the ramp up of this facility led to a barrage of complaints on social media, that staff at private airports and CISF personnel were enrolling them for DigiYatra without their knowledge and consent.