Machine-readable or electronic passports? Nepali Passport MRP.

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Our present MRP project and consider shifting directly to e-passports project, Indeed, passports are documents that are not only sensitive from security standpoint they also symbolize national pride, national independence and self-respect for every one who carries it during overseas travels. From security perspectives, therefore, it becomes the bounden duty of the every Government to ensure that those documents which are a symbol of national identity and pride are secure, highly reliable, tamper-proof and easy for processing at international airports by immigration officers.the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) to grant MRP books printing contract to the Government of India, it is like putting one’s hands into a hornet’s nest, trying to touch upon this issue. But the issue of Passport which is so important for every Nepali wanting to undertake overseas travels, there is a need to try to dispel some of the misperceptions and misunderstanding that seem to be surrounding the MOFA in its efforts to print and secure Machine readable Passports.