chennai the epass system in tamil nadu has been replaced by eregistration regimen which is an automated process requiring no prior approval for travel the tamil nadu government has informed the madras high courtinternational travellers entering the state and travellers to hill stations must do eregistration prior to their travel tamil nadu advocategeneral vijay narayan told the first bench of chief justice a p sahi and justice senthilkumar ramamoorthy on wednesdaythe state government has passed a government order on october 27 modifying the restrictions for movement of public in view of the pandemic he said adding that through eregistration a traveller should provide his basic details like address and contact number for the purpose of contacttracing in case of spike in covid19the issue pertains to a pil filed by k r ezhil nadhi challenging the restriction imposed by the government prohibiting travel to hill stations in the staterepresenting the petitioner advocate abishek jebaraj contended that in view of the powers exercised by the union ministry of home affairs guidelines were issued on september 30 which restrains the states from imposing lockdowns outside containment zones it was made clear that there must be no restriction on inter and intra state movement he arguedit was the petitioners contention that eregistration requirement should be made posttravel and authorities should not insist on a pretravel registrationrefusing to concur with the submission the bench said the state has substantially resolved the problem by passing the government order and disposed of the plea