Opening of the first batch of new Post Office Passport Seva Kendras
The
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Department of Posts (DOP)
announced on 24 January, 2017 their decision to utilize the Head Post
Offices (HPO) in the various States as Post Office Passport Seva Kendra
(POPSK) for delivering passport related services to the citizens of our
country. The objective of this partnership is to extend passport
services on a larger scale and to ensure wider area coverage.
The
pilot projects for this joint venture between MEA and DOP was
inaugurated on 25 January, 2017 at the HPO at Mysuru in Karnataka by
Shri Ananth Kumar, Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and
Parliamentary Affairs; and at the Post Office at Dahod in Gujarat by Gen
(Retd.) Dr. V.K.Singh, Minister of State for External Affairs, and Shri
Jaswantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor, Minister of State for Tribal Affairs,
Government of India. The POPSK at these two places have been running
successfully since their inauguration. One hundred appointments are
being released every day for each of these POPSK.
With
the successful operationalization of these two pilot projects, the
Government has now decided to scale up this programme by opening 56
POPSKs at the following places in the first batch of expansion:Locations | State | Passport Office |
1. Kurnool | Andhra Pradesh | Vishakhapatnam |
2. Kadappa | ||
3. Silchar | Assam | Guwahati |
4. Purnia, | Bihar | Patna |
5. Gopalganj | ||
6. Muzaffarpur | ||
7. Bhagalpur | ||
8. Siwan | ||
9. Surguja | Chhattisgarh | Raipur |
10.Daman | Daman | Mumbai |
11. Diu | Diu | Ahmedabad |
12. Silvasa | Dadra & Nagar Haveli | Mumbai |
13. East Delhi, | Delhi | Delhi |
14. Noth East Delhi, | ||
15. North West Delhi | ||
16. South Delhi | ||
17. West Delhi | ||
18. Bhuj | Gujarat | Ahmedabad |
19. Palanpur | ||
20. Hisar | Haryana | Chandigarh |
21. Karnal | ||
22. Faridabad | Delhi | |
23. Palampur | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla |
24. Hamirpur | ||
25. Leh | J&K | Srinagar |
26. Udhampur | ||
27. Jamshedpur | Jharkhand | Ranchi |
28. Dhanbad | ||
29. Deoghar | ||
30. Belgaum | Karnataka | Bengaluru |
31. Devangere | ||
32. Hassan | ||
33. Gulbarga | ||
34. Pathanamthitta | Kerala | Trivandrum |
35. Kasargod | Kozhikode | |
36. Kavaratti | Lakshadweep | Cochin |
37. Gwalior | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal |
38. Satna | ||
39. Jabalpur | ||
40. Vidisha | ||
41. Rourkela | Odisha | Bhubaneshwar |
42. Sambalpur | ||
43. Koraput | ||
44. Kota | Rajasthan | Jaipur |
45. Jaisalmer | ||
46. Jhunjhunu | ||
47. Bikaner | ||
48. Jhalawar | ||
49. Salem | Tamil Nadu | Coimbatore |
50. Vellore | Chennai | |
51. Mehbubnagar | Telangana | Hyderabad |
52. Warangal | ||
53. Asansol | West Bengal | Kolkata |
54. Nadia | ||
55. North Dinajpur | ||
56. North Kolkata |
Following
the liberalization of passport policies announced on 23 December, 2016,
we have seen nearly 30% surge in demand for passports. For example, a
record number of 53,400 applications were processed on 7.2.2017 out of
which 49,259 were fresh applications. This is the highest since the
commencement of the Passport Seva Project. Our Passport Offices are
conducting special Passport Melas during the weekends to cater to the
increasing demand for passports.
The
pilot projects of the Post Office Passport Seva Kendras (POPSK) have
been running successfully at Mysuru and Dahod. We have been releasing
100 appointments for Mysuru and Dahod POPSK per day with cent per cent
utilization. Appointments for Mysuru are now available in ten days while
at Dahod it is available the next day.
These
are clear indicators that the liberalization of the passport policies
and opening of the POPSK have been successful efforts of the Government
that have been welcomed by our citizens. We expect that opening of these
additional POPSK would further help our citizens in getting passports
easily.
PIB
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