New Delhi: From next month, people in select cities will be able to apply for passports in post offices under an ambitious initiative of the External Affairs Ministry. This is aimed at making the passport issuance process hassle-free and ease burden on passport offices across the country which are grappling with large volume of applications.
In the first phase of the project, passport services will be made available in select post offices in Rajasthan, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Jharkhand and some other states.
The External Affairs Ministry, which issues passports, is making all required arrangements for roll-out of the scheme in some of the select cities in first half of March.
According to the MEA, the government rendered 1.15 crore passport and other related services during 2016.
In Jharkhand, services will be offered in Deoghar, Jamshedpur and Dhandbad.
In Tamil Nadu, passport services in post office will be rolled out in Salem and Vellore while in Karnataka, it will be in Belgaum, Davangere, Hassan, Gulbarga and Mysuru.
The MEA had recently liberalised norms for certain categories of citizens as part of efforts to streamline the passport issuance process.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
In the first phase of the project, passport services will be made available in select post offices in Rajasthan, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Jharkhand and some other states.
The External Affairs Ministry, which issues passports, is making all required arrangements for roll-out of the scheme in some of the select cities in first half of March.
According to the MEA, the government rendered 1.15 crore passport and other related services during 2016.
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In Jharkhand, services will be offered in Deoghar, Jamshedpur and Dhandbad.
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In Tamil Nadu, passport services in post office will be rolled out in Salem and Vellore while in Karnataka, it will be in Belgaum, Davangere, Hassan, Gulbarga and Mysuru.
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The MEA had recently liberalised norms for certain categories of citizens as part of efforts to streamline the passport issuance process.
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(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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