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India all set to make passport issuance smooth, fast-track
Sunday November 27, 2011 05:39:55 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna will Tuesday open a two-day
conference of passport officers from all over the country that
aims at streamlining the process to enable faster processing of
travel documents.
Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai will also address the conference,
which enables an exchange of views and experiences among the
passport officers. It's also an occasion for senior officials of
the external affairs ministry to update passport officers on the
latest policy developments.
The conference will also focus on the implementation of Mission
Mode Project (MMP), called Passport Seva Project, under the
National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of the Indian government. A
target has been set to establish 77 Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs)
all over India. As of today, 30 PSKs are functional all over
India.
With the government fast-tracking the passport issuance process
through innovative e-technologies, long, serpentine queues in
front of the passport offices are going to increasingly become a
thing of the past.
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