With an aim to bringing passports services to the doorsteps of common man, the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre has decided to open Passport Offices at all main post offices of the country and make them wrok as Passport Sewa Kendra. An announcement in this regard was made by Union minister of state for External Affairs, General (retd.) V K Singh in Moradabad.
“The Union government has decided to open Passport Offices in all main post offices of country which would benefit the common man. Now they will not have to go to big cities to get their passports,” Singh told reporters on Monday.
The Union minister said that Modi Government’s initiative to go digital has started showing results and would help the government to use post offices as Passport Seva Kendra.
“When our government came to power, we realized 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,” Singh said adding that his ministry and Postal department were working together to convert 810 head post offices into Passport Seva Kendra.
According to an estimate nearly 150 post offices would start doubling up as passport kendras soon.
Praising the BJP government at the Centre, Singh said that the government has fulfilled all the promises it had made. “Our government is working for the welfare of not only farmesr but also of the youth and poor. It is the only government that thought about empowering the poor and introduced Jan Dhan Yojana for them,” he said.
The former General said that External Affairs ministry has brought 85000 people trapped in other countries to India till date. “Many Indians trapped in Yemen, libya, Iraq and other countries were brought here with efforts of external affairs ministry,” he said.
Talking about Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay, the Union minister said that everyone should perform duties to fulfill the dream of Pandit Upadhyay.