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India Establishes New Compliance Necessities for Airline Passenger Data Beginning April 2025
Friday, January 3, 2025
Starting April 1, 2025, all worldwide airways serving India might be mandated to submit complete passenger particulars to the nation’s customs authorities, as declared by the Central Board of Oblique Taxes and Customs. Airways that fail to stick to this mandate might face penalties starting from INR 25,000 to INR 50,000 for every non-compliance incident.
The mandate stems from the ‘Passenger Name Record Information Regulations, 2022,’ which requires airways to enroll with the Nationwide Customs Focusing on Centre-Passenger by January 10, 2025. The regulation is relevant to each passenger on worldwide flights coming into or leaving India, together with these from the UAE and includes passengers who’re in transit or transferring.
The required data airways should share contains the passenger’s identify, billing particulars, ticket challenge date, journey plans, the names of fellow vacationers on the identical reserving reference, and the whole itinerary.
This coverage goals to bolster threat evaluation and improve border safety measures. The customs division lately indicated {that a} pilot for the PNRGOV system to assemble essential passenger knowledge is about to begin on February 10, 2025, with a full-scale deployment slated from April 1, 2025, for particular person airways and from June 1, 2025, for these working by means of a world distribution system.
Underneath these new laws, airways are anticipated to make sure the confidentiality of passenger data by securely managing knowledge corresponding to names, contact data, and journey particulars. The processing of delicate data pertaining to race, faith, political affiliations, or well being specifics is explicitly forbidden.
Managed by the Nationwide Customs Focusing on Centre-Passenger, this knowledge might be securely dealt with and accessible solely to approved personnel, with strict privateness safeguards in place. Knowledge might be saved for a most of 5 years, after which it should be anonymized, except required for investigations, authorized actions, or safety issues, to uphold privateness and regulatory compliance.
