No
Indian will have to travel more than 50 km to get their passport, as the
government is planning to set up a comprehensive network of Passport Seva
Kendras (PSK) across the nation, with major post offices to also provide the
service, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday.
Sushma
Swaraj announcing the opening of 149 new Post Office Passport Seva Kendras
(POPSKs), said these will be set up in the second phase.
No
Indian will have to travel more than 50 km to get their passport, as the
government is planning to set up a comprehensive network of Passport Seva
Kendras (PSK) across the nation, with major post offices to also provide the
service, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday. The
Minister, announcing the opening of 149 new Post Office Passport Seva Kendras
(POPSKs), said these will be set up in the second phase. In the first phase 86
POPSKs were to be set up — 52 of which are now functional. Apart from centres
in the post offices, the government had earlier also announced 16 full-fledged
PSKs taking the total number of new centres to the “auspicious” 251, she said.
“When
I started at the Ministry, we had only 77 PSKs to cater to the whole nation. I
realised that distance was the biggest hurdle for people to get their
passports,” she said. Even after pushing through 16 more PSKs apart from 86 of
them in post offices, Sushma Swaraj said she felt it was not enough. “We
planned to set a target and decided that no individual should have to travel
more than 50 km for a passport.” “With that criterion for selection, today I
announce 149 new POPSKs,” she said.
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