Two years after they were declared invalid travel documents and their holders asked to change them, over a lakh handwritten Indian passport holders are still to comply.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), a specialised agency of the United Nations, had set November 25, 2015 as the deadline for the gradual withdrawal of handwritten passports, sending out warnings that countries might deny visa to such passport holders.
The ICAO was established by the United States in 1944 to manage the administration and governance of the convention on international civil aviation (also known as Chicago Convention).
Accordingly, the government issued a public notice, urging the citizens to get their handwritten passports changed into machine - readable travel documents. Since then, several similar notices have been issued.
Source: Hindustan Times
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