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‘Passport seva’ soon

Started by sajiv, Apr 04, 2009, 01:15 PM

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'Passport seva' soon

Coimbatore: The Ministry of External Affairs continues to open new passport offices and has envisaged a passport seva project for making passport services easily available within the reach of a common man.

Taking the services further one step forward, the Ministry has also tied up with the State Governments for opening passport cells in every district besides a tie-up with the post offices.

On the contrary, the increasing number of applications seeking passports have resulted in the manpower starved and overstretched police machinery struggling to cope with the increasing number of applications that reaches them for verification of address and criminal antecedents.

Passport Offices assure to provide Tatkal category passports within seven working days and ordinary passports in 45 to 60 working days.

There had been a spurt in number of people applying for passports and the Coimbatore Passport Office on an average gets duly filled forms numbering nearly 450 to 600 at its office and more than 200 received and forwarded by the district passport cells and post offices.

But still, because of the man power constraints, increasing work load, the delay in verification continues to cause night mare for passport seekers.

Source:hindu