Lok Sabha Question No. 2014 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-07
Subject: Functioing of PSKs
Ministry: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: BHEEMRAO BASWANTHRAO PATIL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2014 TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.03.2018

## FUNCTIONING OF PSKs

2014.     SHRI BHEEMRAO B. PATIL:

Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the PSKs currently functioning in the country, Statewise;
- (b) whether   the   modernisation   process   of   Passport   offices/Passport Seva   Kendras   (PSKs)   is   underway   in   the   country   including Telangana;
- (c) if so, the details thereof, State-wise; and
- (d) the time by which all the PSKs are likely to be modernised along with the steps taken/proposed to be taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) There are 93 Passport Seva Kendras (PSK) and 152 Post Office Passport   Seva   Kendras   (POPSK)   functioning   in   the   country   as   on   04 th March, 2018 as extended arms of the 37 Passport Offices. The list of Passport Offices is at Annexure-I . The list of Passport Seva Kendras (PSK) is at Annexure-II . The list of POPSK functional as on 04 th  March, 2018 is at Annexure-III .
- (b) to (d) The Passport Offices, the PSK and the POPSK in the country are fully   modernised.   After   the   nation-wide   roll-out   of   the   Passport   Seva Project, the Passport Offices, the PSK and POPSK are supported by state-ofthe-art   technology   infrastructure   which   enables   end-to-end   passport services to be delivered with enhanced security.

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## LIST OF PASSPORT OFFICES

| S. No.   | State/UT         | Location of Passport Office                        |
|----------|------------------|----------------------------------------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh   | Visakhapatnam Vijayawada                           |
| 2.       | Assam*           | Guwahati*                                          |
| 3.       | Bihar            | Patna                                              |
| 4.       | Chandigarh UT**  | Chandigarh                                         |
| 5.       | Chhattisgarh     | Raipur                                             |
| 6.       | Delhi NCT***     | Delhi                                              |
| 7.       | Goa              | Panaji                                             |
| 8.       | Gujarat          | Ahmedabad, Surat.                                  |
| 9.       | Haryana          | --                                                 |
| 10.      | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla                                             |
| 11.      | Jammu &Kashmir   | Jammu, Srinagar                                    |
| 12.      | Jharkhand        | Ranchi                                             |
| 13.      | Karnataka        | Bangalore                                          |
| 14.      | Kerala           | Thiruvananthapuram, Cochin, Kozhikode, Malappuram. |
| 15.      | Madhya Pradesh   | Bhopal                                             |
| 16.      | Maharashtra      | Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur.                              |
| 17.      | Odisha           | Bhubaneswar                                        |
| 18.      | Punjab           | Amritsar, Jalandhar.                               |
| 19.      | Rajasthan        | Jaipur                                             |
| 20.      | Tamil Nadu       | Chennai, Trichy, Madurai, Coimbatore.              |
| 21.      | Telangana        | Hyderabad                                          |
| 22.      | Uttar Pradesh    | Lucknow, Bareilly, Ghaziabad.                      |
| 23.      | Uttarakhand      | Dehradun                                           |
| 24.      | West Bengal@     | Kolkata                                            |
| TOTAL    | TOTAL            | 37                                                 |

*  RPO Guwahati covers  Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya & Nagaland.
- **RPO Chandigarh covers parts of Punjab and Haryana
- ***RPO Delhi covers parts of Haryana

@RPO Kolkata covers Sikkim and Tripura.

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## ANNEXURE-I

## ANNEXURE-II

## STATE-WISE LIST OF PASSPORT SEVA KENDRAS (PSKs)

|   S. No. | State/UT          |   No. of PSKs | Location of PSKs                                                                                                                                          |
|----------|-------------------|---------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh    |             4 | Vijayawada, Tirupati, Visakhapatnam, Bhimavaram                                                                                                           |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh |             1 | Itanagar                                                                                                                                                  |
|        3 | Assam*            |             1 | Guwahati                                                                                                                                                  |
|        4 | Bihar             |             2 | Patna, Darbhanga                                                                                                                                          |
|        5 | Chandigarh UT**   |             1 | Chandigarh                                                                                                                                                |
|        6 | Chhattisgarh      |             1 | Raipur                                                                                                                                                    |
|        7 | Delhi NCT***      |             3 | Herald House, Shalimar Place, Bhikaji Cama Place                                                                                                          |
|        8 | Goa               |             1 | Panaji                                                                                                                                                    |
|        9 | Gujarat           |             5 | Ahmedabad I& II, Vadodara, Rajkot, Surat.                                                                                                                 |
|       10 | Haryana           |             2 | Ambala, Gurgaon.                                                                                                                                          |
|       11 | Himachal Pradesh  |             1 | Shimla                                                                                                                                                    |
|       12 | Jammu &Kashmir    |             2 | Jammu, Srinagar                                                                                                                                           |
|       13 | Jharkhand         |             1 | Ranchi                                                                                                                                                    |
|       14 | Karnataka         |             5 | Bangalore I &II, Hubli, Mangalore, Kalaburagi.                                                                                                            |
|       15 | Kerala            |            13 | Thiruvananthapuram,Thiruvananthap uram (Rural), Kollam, Cochin, Ernakulam Rural, Alapuzha, Kottayam, Malappuram, Thrissur, Kozhikode I &II, Kannur I &II. |
|       16 | Madhya Pradesh    |             2 | Bhopal, Indore                                                                                                                                            |
|       17 | Maharashtra       |             8 | Mumbai I, II &III, Pune, Nagpur, Thane, Nashik, Solapur.                                                                                                  |
|       18 | Manipur           |             1 | Imphal                                                                                                                                                    |
|       19 | Meghalaya         |             1 | Shillong                                                                                                                                                  |
|       20 | Mizoram           |             1 | Aizawl                                                                                                                                                    |
|       21 | Nagaland          |             1 | Dimapur                                                                                                                                                   |
|       22 | Odisha            |             1 | Bhubaneswar                                                                                                                                               |
|       23 | Puducherry        |             1 | Puducherry                                                                                                                                                |
|       24 | Punjab            |             5 | Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar I &II, Hoshiarpur.                                                                                                          |
|       25 | Rajasthan         |             4 | Jaipur, Jodhpur, Sikar, Udaipur                                                                                                                           |
|       26 | Sikkim            |             1 | Gangtok                                                                                                                                                   |
|       27 | Tamil Nadu        |             8 | Chennai I, II &III, Trichy, Thanjavur, Madurai,Tirunelveli, Coimbatore,                                                                                   |
|       28 | Telangana         |             5 | Hyderabad I, II &III, Nizamabad,                                                                                                                          |

|       |               |    | Karimnagar                                                 |
|-------|---------------|----|------------------------------------------------------------|
| 29.   | Tripura       |  1 | Agartala                                                   |
| 30.   | Uttar Pradesh |  6 | Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Ghaziabad. |
| 31.   | Uttarakhand   |  1 | Dehradun                                                   |
| 32.   | West Bengal   |  3 | Kolkata, Berhampore, Siliguri.                             |
| TOTAL | TOTAL         | 93 |                                                            |

*  RPO Guwahati covers  five other North-Eastern States also at present. **RPO Chandigarh covers parts of Punjab and Haryana. ***RPO Delhi covers parts of Haryana. @RPO Kolkata covers Sikkim and Tripura.

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## ANNEXURE-III 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    | Haryana             | Chandigarh Shimla |
|      48 | Mandi          | Himachal Pradesh    | Shimla            |
|      49 | Palampur       | Himachal Pradesh    |                   |

| 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       |
| 93     | Baripada            | Odisha             | Bhubaneshwar       |
| 94     | Berhampur           | 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 |
| 101    | Moga                | Punjab             | Jalandhar          |

|   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 Kolkata |
|   151 | North Kolkata (Beadon Street) | West Bengal   | Kolkata         |
|   152 | Malda                         | West Bengal   |                 |