Now, you may not have to travel too far for getting your passport as the government has come up with a plan to open passport centres within a radius of 50 km.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday June 17,2017 announced the launch of 149 new Post Office Passport Seva Kendra (POPSK).
These will be in addition to 86 POPSKs announced by the Ministry of External Affairs in the first phase, an initiative undertaken jointly by the MEA and the Department of Post.
Since coming to power, the NDA government has also opened 16 PSKs, with a priority given to northeastern states, Swaraj said.
Thus, the NDA government opened altogether 251 PSKs and POPSKs since it came to power in May 2014, she said.Prior to this, there were 77 PSKs in the country.The minister said when she took charge in the ministry, she realised that “proximity” was the biggest hurdle in applying for passports.
“We have set up a target that no one has to travel more than a radius of 50 kms to get a passport,” she said, adding her ministry and the DoP are working to map 810 head post offices and extend the ambit of the scheme.
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