Lok Sabha Question No. 2025 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-07
Subject: Post Office Passport Centres
Ministry: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: BHAVANA GAWALI (PATIL)

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2025

TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.03.2018

## POST OFFICE PASSPORT CENTRES

† 2025. SHRIMATI BHAVANA PUNDALIKRAO GAWALI PATIL:

Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has decided to set up post-office Passport Service Centres in two phases and if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (b) the number of such centres set up in the first phase and the number of centres out of these which have been operationalised along with the reasons for the remaining centres not being operationalised; and
- (c) the details of targets set regarding the time by which the remaining centres are likely to be set up and operationalised?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS [GEN. (DR) V. K. SINGH (RETD)]

- (a) Yes. The Ministry in association with the Department of Posts has decided to open 251 Passport Seva Kendras at the Head Post Offices (HPO)/ Post Offices (PO) in the country called 'Post Office Passport Seva Kendra' (POPSK). The list of these 251 POPSK is at Annexure-I .   152 POSPK are functional as on 04 th  March, 2018 ( Annexure-II) .

(b) & (c) The Ministry has announced the opening of 86 POPSK in Phase-I, 150 in Phase-II and another 15 subsequently. A total of 75 POPSK of PhaseI   are   functional   as   on   04 th   March,  2018  ( Annexure-III) .   The   Ministry intends to complete the requisite formalities for the operationalization of the remaining POPSK by 31 st  March, 2018.

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## LIST OF 251 POPSK IN THE COUNTRY

|   S.No. | Locations                   | State/UT            | Passport Office   |
|---------|-----------------------------|---------------------|-------------------|
|       1 | Anantpur                    | Andhra Pradesh      | Vijayawada        |
|       2 | Guntur                      | Andhra Pradesh      | Vijayawada        |
|       3 | Krishna                     | Andhra Pradesh      | Vijayawada        |
|       4 | Ongole                      | Andhra Pradesh      | Vijayawada        |
|       5 | Chitoor                     | Andhra Pradesh      | Visakhapatnam     |
|       6 | Kakinada                    | Andhra Pradesh      | Vishakhapatnam    |
|       7 | Srikakulam                  | Andhra Pradesh      | Visakhapatnam     |
|       8 | Kadappa                     | Andhra Pradesh      | Vishakhapatnam    |
|       9 | Kurnool                     | Andhra Pradesh      | Vishakhapatnam    |
|      10 | Nellore                     | Andhra Pradesh      | Vishakhapatnam    |
|      11 | Rajamundry                  | Andhra Pradesh      | Vishakhapatnam    |
|      12 | Changlang                   | Arunachal Pradesh   | Guwahati          |
|      13 | Tirap                       | Arunachal Pradesh   | Guwahati          |
|      14 | Silchar                     | Assam               | Guwahati          |
|      15 | Dhubri                      | Assam               | Guwahati          |
|      16 | Dibrugarh                   | Assam               | Guwahati          |
|      17 | Goalpara                    | Assam               | Guwahati          |
|      18 | Karbi Anglong               | Assam               | Guwahati          |
|      19 | Kokrajhar                   | Assam               | Guwahati          |
|      20 | Mangaldoi                   | Assam               | Guwahati          |
|      21 | North Lakhimpur             | Assam               | Guwahati          |
|      22 | Sonitpur                    | Assam               | Guwahati          |
|      23 | Tinsukia                    | Assam               | Guwahati          |
|      24 | Chhapra                     | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      25 | Gopalganj                   | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      26 | Muzaffarpur                 | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      27 | Purnea                      | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      28 | Bhagalpur                   | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      29 | Siwan                       | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      30 | Bettiah                     | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      31 | Begusarai                   | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      32 | Buxar                       | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      33 | East Champaran              | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      34 | Gaya                        | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      35 | Madhubani                   | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      36 | Samastipur                  | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      37 | Supaul                      | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      38 | Munger                      | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      39 | Navada                      | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      40 | Surguja                     | Chattisgarh         | Raipur            |
|      41 | Durg                        | Chattisgarh         | Raipur            |
|      42 | Bilaspur                    | Chattisgarh         | Raipur            |
|      43 | Rajnandgaon                 | Chattisgarh         | Raipur            |
|      44 | Silvasa                     | Dadar &Nagar Haveli | Mumbai            |
|      45 | Daman                       | Daman               | Mumbai            |
|      46 | North West DelhI Janak Puri | Delhi Delhi         | Delhi Delhi       |
|      47 |                             |                     |                   |

| 48.     | Nehru Place    | Delhi               | Delhi               |
|---------|----------------|---------------------|---------------------|
| 49.     | Patparganj     | Delhi               | Delhi               |
| 50.     | Yamuna Vihar   | Delhi               | Delhi               |
| 51.     | Krishna Nagar  | Delhi               | Delhi               |
| 52.     | Lodhi Road     | Delhi               | Delhi               |
| 53.     | Saket          | Delhi               | Delhi               |
| 54.     | South Goa      | Goa                 | Panaji              |
| 55.     | Dahod          | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 56.     | Palanpur       | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 57.     | Mehsana        | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 58.     | Bhuj           | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 59.     | Veraval        | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 60.     | Anand          | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 61.     | Bharuch        | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 62.     | Bhavnagar      | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 63.     | Jamnagar       | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 64.     | Junagadh       | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 65.     | Kheda          | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 66.     | Navsari        | Gujarat             | Surat               |
| 67.     | Valsad         | Gujarat             | Surat               |
| 68.     | Karnal         | Haryana             | Chandigarh          |
| 69.     | Hisar          | Haryana             | Chandigarh          |
| 70.     | Bhiwani        | Haryana             | Chandigarh          |
| 71.     | Kaithal        | Haryana             | Chandigarh          |
| 72.     | Panipat        | Haryana             | Chandigarh          |
| 73.     | Yamunanagar    | Haryana             | Chandigarh          |
| 74.     | Faridabad      | Haryana             | Delhi               |
| 75.     | Narnaul        | Haryana             | Delhi               |
| 76.     | Rohtak         | Haryana             | Delhi               |
| 77.     | Sonipat        | Haryana             | Delhi               |
| 78.     | Palampur       | Himachal Pradesh    | Shimla              |
| 79.     | Hamirpur       | Himachal Pradesh    | Shimla              |
| 80.     | Kangra         | Himachal Pradesh    | Shimla              |
| 81.     | Kullu          | Himachal Pradesh    | Shimla              |
| 82.     | Mandi          | Himachal Pradesh    | Shimla              |
| 83.     | Una            | Himachal Pradesh    | Shimla              |
| 84.     | Anantnag       | Jammu &Kashmir      | Srinagar            |
| 85.     | Baramulla      | Jammu &Kashmir      | Srinagar            |
| 86.     | Kathua         | Jammu &Kashmir      | Jammu               |
| 87.     | Rajouri        | Jammu &Kashmir      | Jammu               |
| 88.     | Udhampur       | Jammu &Kashmir      | Jammu               |
| 89.     | Leh            | Jammu &Kashmir      | Srinagar            |
| 90.     | Dhanbad        | Jharkhand           | Ranchi              |
| 91.     | Dumka          | Jharkhand           | Ranchi              |
| 92.     | Jamshedpur     | Jharkhand           | Ranchi              |
| 93.     | Deoghar        | Jharkhand           | Ranchi              |
| 94.     | Bokaro         | Jharkhand           | Ranchi              |
| 95.     | Hazaribagh     | Jharkhand           | Ranchi              |
| 96.     | Medininagar    | Jharkhand           | Ranchi              |
| 97. 98. | Mysuru Bellary | Karnataka Karnataka | Bengaluru Bengaluru |
| 99.     | Bidar          | Karnataka           | Bengaluru           |

| 100.      | Gadag                | Karnataka            | Bengaluru      |
|-----------|----------------------|----------------------|----------------|
| 101.      | Raichur              | Karnataka            | Bengaluru      |
| 102.      | Shivamogga           | Karnataka            | Bengaluru      |
| 103.      | Tumakuru             | Karnataka            | Bengaluru      |
| 104.      | Udupi                | Karnataka            | Bengaluru      |
| 105.      | Vijayapur            | Karnataka            | Bengaluru      |
| 106.      | Belagavi             | Karnataka            | Bengaluru      |
| 107.      | Devangere            | Karnataka            | Bengaluru      |
| 108.      | Hassan               | Karnataka            | Bengaluru      |
| 109.      | Chengannur           | Kerala               | Cochin         |
| 110.      | Idukki               | Kerala               | Cochin         |
| 111.      | Kasargod             | Kerala               | Kozhikode      |
| 112.      | Pathanamthitta       | Kerala               | Trivandrum     |
| 113.      | Kavaratti            | Lakshadweep          | Cochin         |
| 114.      | Vidisha              | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 115.      | Ratlam               | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 116.      | Shivpuri             | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 117.      | Jabalpur             | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 118.      | Gwalior              | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 119.      | Balaghat             | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 120.      | Chhindwara           | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 121.      | Dewas                | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 122.      | Damoh                | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 123.      | Hoshangabad          | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 124.      | Sehore               | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 125.      | Sidhi                | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 126.      | Ujjain               | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 127.      | Betul                | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 128.      | Shivni               | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 129.      | Satna                | Madhya Pradesh       | Bhopal         |
| 130.      | Sindhudurg           | Maharashtra          | Mumbai         |
| 131.      | Wardha               | Maharashtra          | Mumbai         |
| 132.      | Jalna                | Maharashtra          | Nagpur         |
| 133.      | Latur                | Maharashtra          | Nagpur         |
| 134.      | Ahmednagar           | Maharashtra          | Pune           |
| 135.      | Pandharpur           | Maharashtra          | Pune           |
| 136.      | Sangli               | Maharashtra          | Pune           |
| 137.      | Satara               | Maharashtra          | Pune           |
| 138.      | Beed                 | Maharastra           | Mumbai         |
| 139.      | Mumbai North Central | Maharastra           | Mumbai         |
| 140.      | Mumbai South Central | Maharastra           | Mumbai         |
| 141.      | Ghatkopar            | Maharastra           | Mumbai         |
| 142.      | Aurangabad           | Maharastra           | Mumbai         |
| 143.      | Navi Mumbai          | Maharastra           | Mumbai         |
| 144.      | Dombivali            | Maharastra           | Mumbai         |
| 145.      | Panvel               | Maharastra           | Mumbai         |
| 146.      | Nanded (N)           | Maharastra           | Nagpur         |
| 147.      | Kolhapur             | Maharastra           | Pune           |
| 148.      | Pimpri Chinchwad     | Maharastra           | Pune           |
| 149. 150. | Jalgaon Baghmara     | Maharastra Meghalaya | Thane Guwahati |
| 151.      |                      | Meghalaya            | Guwahati       |
|           | Tura                 |                      |                |

|   152. | Rourkela                 | Odisha     | Bhubaneshwar   |
|--------|--------------------------|------------|----------------|
|    153 | Sambalpur                | Odisha     | Bhubaneshwar   |
|    154 | Koraput                  | Odisha     | Bhubaneshwar   |
|    155 | Balasore                 | Odisha     | Bhubaneshwar   |
|    156 | Baripada                 | Odisha     | Bhubaneshwar   |
|    157 | Berhampur (Ganjam)       | Odisha     | Bhubaneshwar   |
|    158 | Bhawanipatna (Kalahandi) | Odisha     | Bhubaneshwar   |
|    159 | Karaikal                 | Puducherry | Chennai        |
|    160 | Tarn Taran               | Punjab     | Amritsar       |
|    161 | Patiala                  | Punjab     | Chandigarh     |
|    162 | Bathinda                 | Punjab     | Chandigarh     |
|    163 | Sangrur                  | Punjab     | Chandigarh     |
|    164 | Gurdaspur                | Punjab     | Jalandhar      |
|    165 | Moga                     | Punjab     | Jalandhar      |
|    166 | SBS Nagar (Nawan Shahar) | Punjab     | Jalandhar      |
|    167 | Phagwara                 | Punjab     | Jalandhar      |
|    168 | Kota                     | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    169 | Bikaner                  | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    170 | Barmer                   | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    172 | Jaisalmer                | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    173 | Jhalawar                 | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    174 | Ajmer                    | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    175 | Churu                    | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    176 | Dungarpur                | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    177 | Hanumangarh              | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    178 | Karauli-Dhaulpur         | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    179 | Nagaur                   | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    180 | Sriganganagar            | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    181 | Alwar                    | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    182 | Chittorgarh              | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    183 | Banswada                 | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    184 | Pali                     | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|    185 | Vellore                  | Tamil Nadu | Chennai        |
|    186 | Salem                    | Tamil Nadu | Coimbatore     |
|    187 | Viluppuram               | Tamilnadu  | Chennai        |
|    188 | Namakkal                 | Tamilnadu  | Coimbatore     |
|    189 | Tiruppur                 | Tamilnadu  | Coimbatore     |
|    190 | Tiruvannamalai           | Tamilnadu  | Chennai        |
|    191 | Ramanathapuram           | Tamilnadu  | Maduai         |
|    192 | Cuddalore                | Tamilnadu  | Madurai        |
|    193 | Dindigul                 | Tamilnadu  | Madurai        |
|    194 | Sivaganga                | Tamilnadu  | Madurai        |
|    195 | Virudhunagar             | Tamilnadu  | Madurai        |
|    196 | Kanyakumari (N)          | Tamilnadu  | Madurai        |
|    197 | Perambalur               | Tamilnadu  | Tiruchirapalli |
|    198 | Pudukkottai              | Tamilnadu  | Tiruchirapalli |
|    199 | Mehbubnagar              | Telangana  | Hyderabad      |
|    200 | Warangal                 | Telangana  | Hyderabad      |
|    201 | Adilabad                 | Telangana  | Hyderabad      |
|    202 | Medak                    | Telangana  | Hyderabad      |
|    203 | Khammam                  | Telangana  | Hyderabad      |

|   204. | Siddipet                      | Telangana     | Hyderabad       |
|--------|-------------------------------|---------------|-----------------|
|    205 | Nalgonda                      | Telangana     | Hyderabad       |
|    206 | Bijnaur                       | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly        |
|    207 | Pilibhit                      | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly        |
|    208 | Moradabad                     | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly        |
|    209 | Rampur                        | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly        |
|    210 | Mathura                       | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad       |
|    211 | Meerut                        | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad       |
|    212 | Agra                          | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad       |
|    213 | GautamBudh Nagar              | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad       |
|    214 | Aligarh                       | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad       |
|    215 | Saharanpur                    | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad       |
|    216 | Allahabad                     | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    217 | Deoria                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    218 | Sultanpur                     | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    219 | Jhansi                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    220 | Ghazipur                      | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    221 | Mirzapur                      | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    222 | Ayodhya/ Faizabad             | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    223 | Amethi                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    224 | Azamgarh                      | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    225 | Bahraich                      | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    226 | Ballia                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    227 | Balrampur                     | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    228 | Barabanki                     | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    229 | Basti                         | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    230 | Gonda                         | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    231 | Jaunpur                       | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    232 | Kushi Nagar                   | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    233 | Mau                           | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    234 | Sitapur                       | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    235 | Pratapgarh                    | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    236 | RaeBareli                     | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    237 | Unnao                         | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
|    238 | Almora                        | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun        |
|    239 | Haldwani/Kathgodam            | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun        |
|    240 | Nainital                      | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun        |
|    241 | Pauri                         | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun        |
|    242 | Roorkee                       | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun        |
|    243 | Rudrapur                      | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun        |
|    244 | Nadia (Krishnanagar)          | West Bengal   | Kolkata         |
|    245 | North Kolkata (Beadon Street) | West Bengal   | Kolkata         |
|    246 | Asansol                       | West Bengal   | Kolkata         |
|    247 | Raiganj                       | West Bengal   | Kolkata         |
|    248 | Bardhman                      | West Bengal   | Kolkata         |
|    249 | Barrackpore                   | West Bengal   | Kolkata         |
|    250 | Darjeeling Malda              | West Bengal   | Kolkata Kolkata |
|    251 |                               | West Bengal   |                 |

*****

## List of functional POPSK as on 04 th March, 2018

|   S.No. | Locations         | State/UT                 | Passport Office   |
|---------|-------------------|--------------------------|-------------------|
|       1 | Anantpur          | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|       2 | Chittoor          | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|       3 | Kadappa           | Andhra Pradesh           | Vishakhapatnam    |
|       4 | Kurnool           | Andhra Pradesh           | Vishakhapatnam    |
|       5 | Nellore           | Andhra Pradesh           | Vishakhapatnam    |
|       6 | Dibrugarh         | Assam                    | Guwahati          |
|       7 | Mangaldoi         | Assam                    | Guwahati          |
|       8 | Silchar           | Assam                    | Guwahati          |
|       9 | Buxar             | Bihar                    | Patna             |
|      10 | Chhapra           | Bihar                    | Patna             |
|      11 | East Champaran    | Bihar                    | Patna             |
|      12 | Gaya              | Bihar                    | Patna             |
|      13 | Madhubani         | Bihar                    | Patna             |
|      14 | Muzaffarpur       | Bihar                    | Patna             |
|      15 | Purnea            | Bihar                    | Patna             |
|      16 | Bhagalpur         | Bihar                    | Patna             |
|      17 | Samastipur        | Bihar                    | Patna             |
|      18 | Siwan             | Bihar                    | Patna             |
|      19 | Bettiah           | Bihar                    | Patna             |
|      20 | Bilaspur          | Chattisgarh              | Raipur            |
|      21 | Durg              | Chattisgarh              | Raipur            |
|      22 | Rajnandgaon       | Chattisgarh              | Raipur            |
|      23 | Surguja           | Chattisgarh              | Raipur            |
|      24 | Silvasa           | Dadar &Nagar Haveli      | Mumbai            |
|      25 | Daman             | Daman                    | Mumbai            |
|      26 | Janak Puri        | Delhi                    | Delhi             |
|      27 | Nehru Place       | Delhi                    | Delhi             |
|      28 | Patparganj        | Delhi                    | Delhi             |
|      29 | Yamuna Vihar      | Delhi                    | Delhi             |
|      30 | Anand             | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad         |
|      31 | Bharuch           | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad         |
|      32 | Dahod             | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad         |
|      33 | Jamnagar          | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad         |
|      34 | Junagadh          | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad         |
|      35 | Kheda             | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad         |
|      36 | Palanpur          | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad         |
|      37 | Bhuj              | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad         |
|      38 | Bhavnagar         | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad         |
|      39 | Mehsana           | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad         |
|      40 | Navsari           | Gujarat                  | Surat             |
|      41 | Valsad            | Gujarat                  | Surat             |
|      42 | Veraval           | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad         |
|      43 | Karnal            | Haryana                  | Chandigarh        |
|      44 | Hisar             | Haryana                  | Chandigarh        |
|      45 | Panipat           | Haryana                  | Chandigarh        |
|      46 | Faridabad         | Haryana                  | Delhi             |
|      47 | Yamunanagar Mandi | Haryana Himachal Pradesh | Chandigarh Shimla |
|      48 | Palampur          |                          | Shimla            |
|      49 |                   | Himachal Pradesh         |                   |

## ANNEXURE-II

| 50     | Hamirpur            | Himachal Pradesh   | Shimla             |
|--------|---------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
| 51     | Kangra              | Himachal Pradesh   | Shimla             |
| 52     | Kullu               | Himachal Pradesh   | Shimla             |
| 53     | Una                 | Himachal Pradesh   | Shimla             |
| 54     | Anantnag            | J&K                | Srinagar           |
| 55     | Baramulla           | J&K                | Srinagar           |
| 56     | Kathua              | J&K                | Jammu              |
| 57     | Rajouri             | J&K                | Jammu              |
| 58     | Udhampur            | Jammu &Kashmir     | Jammu              |
| 59     | Leh                 | Jammu &Kashmir     | Srinagar           |
| 60     | Bokaro              | Jharkhand          | Ranchi             |
| 61     | Hazaribagh          | Jharkhand          | Ranchi             |
| 62     | Jamshedpur          | Jharkhand          | Ranchi             |
| 63     | Deoghar             | Jharkhand          | Ranchi             |
| 64     | Dhanbad             | Jharkhand          | Ranchi             |
| 65     | Dumka               | Jharkhand          | Ranchi             |
| 66     | Belagavi            | Karnataka          | Bengaluru          |
| 67     | Bellary             | Karnataka          | Bengaluru          |
| 68     | Davangere           | Karnataka          | Bengaluru          |
| 69     | Gadag               | Karnataka          | Bengaluru          |
| 70     | Hassan              | Karnataka          | Bengaluru          |
| 71     | Mysuru              | Karnataka          | Bangalore          |
| 72     | Shivamogga          | Karnataka          | Bengaluru          |
| 73     | Tumakuru            | Karnataka          | Bengaluru          |
| 74     | Udupi               | Karnataka          | Bengaluru          |
| 75     | Vijayapur           | Karnataka          | Bengaluru          |
| 76     | Chengannur          | Kerala             | Cochin             |
| 77     | Idukki (Kattappana) | Kerala             | Cochin             |
| 78     | Pathanamthitta      | Kerala             | Trivandrum         |
| 79     | Kasargod            | Kerala             | Kozhikode          |
| 80     | Kavaratti           | Lakshadweep        | Cochin             |
| 81     | Balaghat            | Madhya Pradesh     | Bhopal             |
| 82     | Dewas               | Madhya Pradesh     | Bhopal             |
| 83     | Vidisha             | Madhya Pradesh     | Bhopal             |
| 84     | Satna               | Madhya Pradesh     | Bhopal             |
| 85     | Jabalpur            | Madhya Pradesh     | Bhopal             |
| 86     | Gwalior             | Madhya Pradesh     | Bhopal             |
| 87     | Kolhapur            | Maharashtra        | Pune               |
| 88     | Aurangabad          | Maharashtra        | Mumbai             |
| 89     | Ghatkopar/Vikhroli  | Maharashtra        | Mumbai             |
| 90     | Pimpri Chinchwad    | Maharashtra        | Pune               |
| 91     | Wardha              | Maharashtra        | Nagpur             |
| 92     | Balasore            | Odisha             | Bhubaneshwar       |
|        |                     |                    | Bhubaneshwar       |
| 93 94  | Baripada Berhampur  | Odisha Odisha      | Bhubaneshwar       |
| 95     | Bhawanipatna        | Odisha             | Bhubaneshwar       |
| 96     | Rourkela            | Odisha             | Bhubaneshwar       |
| 97     | Sambalpur           | Odisha             | Bhubaneshwar       |
| 98     | Koraput             | Odisha             | Bhubaneshwar       |
| 99 100 | Karaikal Bathinda   | Puducherry Punjab  | Chennai Chandigarh |
|        |                     | Punjab             | Jalandhar          |
| 101    | Moga                |                    |                    |

|   102 | Patiala                       | Punjab        | Chandigarh   |
|-------|-------------------------------|---------------|--------------|
|   103 | Ajmer                         | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   104 | Alwar                         | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   105 | Barmer                        | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   106 | Chittorgarh                   | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   107 | Churu                         | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   108 | Karauli-Dhaulpur              | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   109 | Kota                          | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   110 | Bikaner                       | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   111 | Hanumangarh                   | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   112 | Jhunjhunu                     | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   113 | Jaisalmer                     | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   114 | Jhalawar                      | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   115 | Nagaur                        | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   116 | Pali                          | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   117 | Sriganganagar                 | Rajasthan     | Jaipur       |
|   118 | Cuddalore                     | Tamilnadu     | Chennai      |
|   119 | Kanyakumari                   | Tamilnadu     | Madurai      |
|   120 | Salem                         | Tamil Nadu    | Coimbatore   |
|   121 | Tiruvannamalai                | Tamil Nadu    | Chennai      |
|   122 | Vellore                       | Tamil Nadu    | Chennai      |
|   123 | Virudhunagar                  | Tamilnadu     | Madurai      |
|   124 | Viluppuram                    | Tamilnadu     | Chennai      |
|   125 | Adilabad                      | Telangana     | Hyderabad    |
|   126 | Khammam                       | Telangana     | Hyderabad    |
|   127 | Mehbubnagar                   | Telangana     | Hyderabad    |
|   128 | Siddipet                      | Telangana     | Hyderabad    |
|   129 | Warangal (Hanamkonda)         | Telangana     | Hyderabad    |
|   130 | Agra                          | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad    |
|   131 | Ballia                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow      |
|   132 | Bijnaur                       | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly     |
|   133 | Jhansi                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow      |
|   134 | Moradabad                     | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly     |
|   135 | Pilibhit                      | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly     |
|   136 | Ghazipur                      | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow      |
|   137 | Ayodhya/ Faizabad             | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow      |
|   138 | Allahabad                     | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow      |
|   139 | Deoria                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow      |
|   140 | Unnao                         | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow      |
|   141 | Meerut                        | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad    |
|   142 | Almora                        | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun     |
|   143 | Haldwani (now at Kathgodam)   | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun     |
|   144 | Nainital                      | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun     |
|   145 | Roorkee                       | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun     |
|   146 |                               | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun     |
|   147 | Rudrapur Asansol              | West Bengal   | Kolkata      |
|   148 | Bardhman                      | West Bengal   | Kolkata      |
|   149 | Raiganj (North Dinajpur)      | West Bengal   | Kolkata      |
|   150 | Nadia (Krishnanagar)          | West Bengal   | Kolkata      |
|   151 | North Kolkata (Beadon Street) | West Bengal   | Kolkata      |
|   152 | Malda                         | West Bengal   | Kolkata      |

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## Functional POPSK of Phase-I as on 04 th March, 2018

|   S.No. | Locations    | State/UT            | Passport Office   |
|---------|--------------|---------------------|-------------------|
|       1 | Kadappa      | Andhra Pradesh      | Vishakhapatnam    |
|       2 | Kurnool      | Andhra Pradesh      | Vishakhapatnam    |
|       3 | Nellore      | Andhra Pradesh      | Vishakhapatnam    |
|       4 | Silchar      | Assam               | Guwahati          |
|       5 | Muzaffarpur  | Bihar               | Patna             |
|       6 | Purnea       | Bihar               | Patna             |
|       7 | Bhagalpur    | Bihar               | Patna             |
|       8 | Siwan        | Bihar               | Patna             |
|       9 | Bettiah      | Bihar               | Patna             |
|      10 | Surguja      | Chattisgarh         | Raipur            |
|      11 | Silvasa      | Dadar &Nagar Haveli | Mumbai            |
|      12 | Daman        | Daman               | Mumbai            |
|      13 | Janak Puri   | Delhi               | Delhi             |
|      14 | Nehru Place  | Delhi               | Delhi             |
|      15 | Patparganj   | Delhi               | Delhi             |
|      16 | Yamuna Vihar | Delhi               | Delhi             |
|      17 | Dahod        | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad         |
|      18 | Palanpur     | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad         |
|      19 | Bhuj         | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad         |
|      20 | Veraval      | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad         |
|      21 | Karnal       | Haryana             | Chandigarh        |
|      22 | Hisar        | Haryana             | Chandigarh        |
|      23 | Faridabad    | Haryana             | Delhi             |
|      24 | Palampur     | Himachal Pradesh    | Shimla            |

|   25. | Hamirpur           | Himachal Pradesh   | Shimla       |
|-------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------|
|    26 | Udhampur           | Jammu &Kashmir     | Jammu        |
|    27 | Leh                | Jammu &Kashmir     | Srinagar     |
|    28 | Jamshedpur         | Jharkhand          | Ranchi       |
|    29 | Deoghar            | Jharkhand          | Ranchi       |
|    30 | Dhanbad            | Jharkhand          | Ranchi       |
|    31 | Belagavi           | Karnataka          | Bengaluru    |
|    32 | Davangere          | Karnataka          | Bengaluru    |
|    33 | Hassan             | Karnataka          | Bengaluru    |
|    34 | Mysuru             | Karnataka          | Bangalore    |
|    35 | Pathanamthitta     | Kerala             | Trivandrum   |
|    36 | Kasargod           | Kerala             | Kozhikode    |
|    37 | Kavaratti          | Lakshadweep        | Cochin       |
|    38 | Vidisha            | Madhya Pradesh     | Bhopal       |
|    39 | Satna              | Madhya Pradesh     | Bhopal       |
|    40 | Jabalpur           | Madhya Pradesh     | Bhopal       |
|    41 | Gwalior            | Madhya Pradesh     | Bhopal       |
|    42 | Ghatkopar/Vikhroli | Maharashtra        | Mumbai       |
|    43 | Kolhapur           | Maharashtra        | Pune         |
|    44 | Aurangabad         | Maharashtra        | Mumbai       |
|    45 | Pimpri Chinchwad   | Maharashtra        | Pune         |
|    46 | Rourkela           | Odisha             | Bhubaneshwar |
|    47 | Sambalpur          | Odisha             | Bhubaneshwar |
|    48 | Koraput            | Odisha             | Bhubaneshwar |
|    49 | Bathinda           | Punjab             | Chandigarh   |
|    50 | Patiala            | Punjab             | Chandigarh   |
|    51 | Kota               | Rajasthan          | Jaipur       |

|   52. | Bikaner                       | Rajasthan     | Jaipur     |
|-------|-------------------------------|---------------|------------|
|    53 | Jhunjhunu                     | Rajasthan     | Jaipur     |
|    54 | Jaisalmer                     | Rajasthan     | Jaipur     |
|    55 | Jhalawar                      | Rajasthan     | Jaipur     |
|    56 | Salem                         | Tamil Nadu    | Coimbatore |
|    57 | Vellore                       | Tamil Nadu    | Chennai    |
|    58 | Mehbubnagar                   | Telangana     | Hyderabad  |
|    59 | Warangal (Hanamkonda)         | Telangana     | Hyderabad  |
|    60 | Agra                          | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad  |
|    61 | Bijnaur                       | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly   |
|    62 | Jhansi                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow    |
|    63 | Pilibhit                      | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly   |
|    64 | Ghazipur                      | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow    |
|    65 | Ayodhya/ Faizabad             | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow    |
|    66 | Allahabad                     | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow    |
|    67 | Deoria                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow    |
|    68 | Meerut                        | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad  |
|    69 | Almora                        | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun   |
|    70 | Haldwani (now at Kathgodam)   | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun   |
|    71 | Nainital                      | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun   |
|    72 | Asansol                       | West Bengal   | Kolkata    |
|    73 | Raiganj (North Dinajpur)      | West Bengal   | Kolkata    |
|    74 | Nadia (Krishnanagar)          | West Bengal   | Kolkata    |
|    75 | North Kolkata (Beadon Street) | West Bengal   | Kolkata    |

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