DG Intelligence Shivdhar Reddy receives award on behalf of Telangana police for VeriFast app

The integration of Telangana Police with technology use and acceleration passport verification has been accepted as the country’s best performance digital platform for passport application validation. Police General Manager (Intelligence) B. Shivdhar Redy received award for the ‘Verifast’ from Pabitra Margherita, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Pabitra Margherita, on the occasion of the passport Seva Divas on Tuesday, June 24, 2025.

According to the latest national metrics of the Ministry, TaLangana manages the country in passport verification efficiency and solves the majority of applications within three records of records. Mr. Shivdhar Redy, who received the national award, said that the state police are proud to set a “gold standard ında in the passport verification of the state police and that the department is actively working on more innovation to improve the citizen’s experience.

Among the main important points of Verifast application are the fastest average passport verification time in India, zero accumulated obligation through the dynamic appointment of field officials, 95% citizen satisfaction rate and more than 2,000 verification per day exceeding eight cases per year.

It also helps prevent fraud through minimum operational costs obtained without integration and new hardware requirements with criminal intelligence databases.

The application also exemplifies smart management and optimizes the workflow, which minimizes errors and increases the accountability of civil servants, and optimizes it with a process on stage basis. Automatically assigns the cases to exist officers, provides fast action and has an uninterrupted connection with criminal records for advanced background controls. Applicants receive instant notifications during the verification process.