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Indian passports now have enhanced new safety features.

Dec 17,2019
Financial Express

Lotus is the national flower and it is now part of the enhanced security feature to identify fake passports and is being printed on the passports. It has been printed inside a rectangle on the page has replaced the spot where the passport officer’s signature and seal are put. The new passports come with new codes and have started being used in all the 36 passport offices across the country Besides the Ministry of External Affairs, other agencies including the National Informatics Centre (NIC), the Indian Security Press (Nasik) are part of this new upgraded passport for travellers. He had said that there is a proposal by MEA to work on e-passports which would help in making a new passport booklet with modern security features.