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Reforms needed to be done in passport issuance, says S Jaishankar

In collaboration with the Department of Posts, we embarked on really a very transformational initiative, which has allowed us in the last three years to open 424 POPSKs, he said

S Jaishankar
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"The 'Applying for Passports from Anywhere' scheme has helped applicants to obviously go to any Passport Seva Kendra, even if they are not in that jurisdiction and that again has, I think, been very very widely appreciated by the public," Jaishankar said

S Jaishankar New Delhi
You all know that in collaboration with the Department of Posts, we embarked on really a very transformational initiative, which has allowed us in the last three years to open 424 Post Office Passport Seva Kendras (POPSKs). Out of these, 12 were actually inaugurated in the first 100 days of this government and I myself, like Muralidharan ji, had the privilege of inaugurating one of the POPSKs, in my case it was at Rajpipla in Gujarat.
 
Now, you know that we intend to open up our POPSK in every Lok Sabha constituency where no PSK exist(s) today, and we have