Question

What is machine readable zone in indian passport?

Answer 1

Machine readable zone is a machine readable travel document MRTD, with the data on the identity page encoded in optical character recognition format.

Machine readable zone in Indian passport enable faster processing of arriving passengers by immigration officials and greater accuracy than manual read passport.

It allows faster data entry and data matching against immigration databases and watch lists.

Name, passport number, nationality, date of birth and passport expiry date must be provided in the zone.