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Passport Seva Kendras getting up to a million applications a month: TCS

Over 350,000 passports already generated through new post office PSKs

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Romita Majumdar Mumbai
This article has been modified to rectify an error in an earlier version.

The number of applications for passports has jumped to a million a month on an average, according to officials at the Ministry of External Affairs and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

Consequently, the 58 facilities at post offices alone have generated 350,000 passports so far this year, and the number is expected to rise as the government plans to expand the programme of using head post offices as PSKs across the country. Apart from these 58 post office passport seva kendras, there are 93 PSKs throughout the