Foreign ministry to issue new passports

The foreign ministry has said that it will start to issue passports that can be read by machines from the year 2010 and has started to make necessary arrangements for it. The ministry decided to issue such passports on the direction of International Aviation Institute. A taskforce comprising officials of foreign ministry, home ministry and science and technology ministry has already started doing necessary homework for it and would submit its report to the concerned ministry in one months time, said a foreign ministry official.