New Delhi: The Government plans to introduce a biometric passport system by 2010, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee has informed the Upper House of the Parliament.

"We have decided to introduce biometric passport system. We intend to complete the entire process by 2010," he responded during the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha. This would help check human trafficking he added.

Mukherjee also stated that there was a nexus between recruiting agencies and human traffickers. He said that Indian workers fell for the attractions of earning more money and resorted to illegal migration. This only resulted in their being harassed and exploited.

"Our policy is whenever the nationality (of the worker detained by a foreign country for illegal migration) is identified, we bring them back," he said.