Ministry of External Affairs

Comprehensive coverage of passport services through a network of post offices

New Delhi, Correspondent, Passport Seva Project (PSP), which is an ambitious project Mission Mode Government of India, is working successfully under the Pakistan People's Party in the framework of the national e-government plan. Become one of the legal services that focus on leading citizens provided by the government. Tata Consultancy M / Services (TCS) is a service provider for PSP.

Currently 0.89 Passport Seva Kendras (PSK), with the best service of its kind operating in the country in which the enlarged arm of the offices of 38 travel passports, and provide greater access to passport applicants. Over the past two and a half years, there have been many quantitative and qualitative improvements in the provision of passport services in the country.

Over the years, there was an expansion in the size of the relevant services passport. The Indian government has paid 1.15 billion rupees passport and other relevant during the calendar year 2016 services.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs worked closely with police departments States / Union Territories to reduce the time it takes to complete the police report to verify (PVR) for quick issuance of passports. The post office values ​​of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a partner on the PSP, and ensure timely shipment and delivery of passports from the passport offices to the registered address of the applicants passport.

To simplify, the liberalization and facilitation process of issuing passports, the State Department has made several changes in the past year in politics passport, which should benefit the citizens of India's request for a passport. It is expected that these changes in passport rules will further facilitate the process of applying for a passport passports.

The objective of the government to meet the demand for passports and reach out to people located far away from the passport offices. The one approach is to open the PSK in several places, and under that, the government has decided to open a four-PSK in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, Udaipur in Rajasthan, Siliguri in West Bengal state and Sholapur in Maharashtra in the coming months. The second approach Passport Seva camps organized in several places. During 2016, 80 camps have been organized in different parts of the country, where he was processed 34,111 passport applications.

The extension of passports for our services on a larger scale, and to ensure wider coverage area, approved by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Ministry of Posts (DOP) for the use of office station (HBO), many countries such as the Passport Office Seva Kendra (POPSK) related to the issuance of passports to citizens of Services our country. This joint project between the driver and the DOP multilateral environmental agreements will be the opening of 25 January 2017 on HBO Mysuru in Karnataka and Gujarat Dahod. Applicants can apply for a passport online through passports gate now set a date and visit POPSK appointed to complete such procedures passport included. PSK required before issuance of a passport.

Focused to provide services related to passports POPSK will be another measure of government on citizens to bring utility computing on the basis of population. This partnership is a major step forward that will allow the government to continue to provide citizens passports related travel more accessible, reliable and timely, and transparent, through streamlined operations and services of skilled and motivated labor incurred.

After implementing the pilot project is successful, the government plans to expand the program to open POPSK through every HBO gradually.