Lok Sabha Question No. 3635 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-08
Subject: Passport Seva Kendras
Ministry: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: SUNIL KUMAR SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3635

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.08.2018

## PASSPORT SEVA KENDRAS

- †3635.     SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) running in the country at present;
- (b) the State-wise details thereof including Jharkhand;
- (c) the places where the service of making passport through post offices has been started in the country, State-wise;
- (d) whether the Government has received any proposals or is considering to set up post office PSKs; and
- (e) if so, the time by which it is likely to be started in Chatra and Latehar districts of Jharkhand?

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

- (a) to (d) There are 93 Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) and 215 Post Office Passport   Seva   Kendras   (POPSKs)   jointly   known   as   308   Passport   Kendras functioning across the country as on 02 August, 2018 (Annexure-I) & (AnnexureII).
- (e) The   Ministry   has   announced   opening   of   ten   POPSK   in   the   State   of Jharkhand at  Bokaro, Chatra, Deoghar, Dhanbad, Dumka, Giridih, Hazaribagh, Jamshedpur, Lohardaga and Medininagar. Out of these seven are functional as on 02 August, 2018 at Bokaro, Deoghar, Dhanbad, Dumka, Hazaribagh, Jamshedpur and Medininagar. The opening of more Passport Kendras is an on-going activity including in Latehar. The Post Office Passport Seva Kendras are being set up in association with the Department of Posts in order to bring  passport services closer to people residing in villages/remote/rural areas of the country including Latehar district of Jharkhand.
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## STATE-WISE LIST OF PASSPORT KENDRAS

| S. No.   | State/UT          |   Number | Location                                                                                                                                                                               |
|----------|-------------------|----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 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 | Mithakali (Ahmedabad), Vijay Cross Road (Ahmedabad), 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 | Lalbagh (Bengaluru), Marathahalli (Bengaluru), Hubli, Mangalore, Kalaburagi.                                                                                                           |
| 15.      | Kerala            |       13 | Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram (Rural), Kollam, Cochin, Ernakulam Rural, Alapuzha, Kottayam, Malappuram, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Vadakara (Kozhikode), Kannur, Payyanur (Kannur). |
| 16.      | Madhya Pradesh    |        2 | Bhopal, Indore.                                                                                                                                                                        |
| 17.      | Maharashtra       |        8 | Andheri (Mumbai), Lower Parel (Mumbai), Malad (Mumbai), Pune, Nagpur, Nashik, Solapur, Thane.                                                                                          |
| 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 | Aminjikarai (Chennai), Saligramam (Chennai), Tambaram (Chennai), Trichy, Thanjavur, Madurai,Tirunelveli, Coimbatore.                                                                   |
| 28.      | Telangana         |        5 | Ameerpet (Hyderabad), Begumpet (Hyderabad), Toli Chowki (Hyderabad), 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    |                   |       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-I

ANNEXURE-II

## LIST OF OPERATIONAL POPSK AS ON 02 ND  AUGUST, 2018

| S. No.   | Locations        | State/UT            | Passport Office     |
|----------|------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
| 1.       | Anantpur         | Andhra Pradesh      | Vijayawada          |
| 2.       | Chittoor         | Andhra Pradesh      | Vijayawada          |
| 3.       | Guntur           | Andhra Pradesh      | Vijayawada          |
| 4.       | Krishna-Gudivada | Andhra Pradesh      | Vijayawada          |
| 5.       | Ongole           | Andhra Pradesh      | Vijayawada          |
| 6.       | Srikakulam       | Andhra Pradesh      | Visakhapatnam       |
| 7.       | Kadappa          | Andhra Pradesh      | Visakhapatnam       |
| 8.       | Kakinada         | Andhra Pradesh      | Visakhapatnam       |
| 9.       | Kurnool          | Andhra Pradesh      | Visakhapatnam       |
| 10.      | Nellore          | Andhra Pradesh      | Visakhapatnam       |
| 11.      | Rajamundry       | Andhra Pradesh      | Visakhapatnam       |
| 12.      | Changlang        | Arunachal Pradesh   | Guwahati            |
| 13.      | Tirap            | Arunachal Pradesh   | Guwahati            |
| 14.      | Dibrugarh        | Assam               | Guwahati            |
| 15.      | Dhubri           | Assam               | Guwahati            |
| 16.      | Goalpara         | Assam               | Guwahati            |
| 17.      | Karbi Anglong    | Assam               | Guwahati            |
| 18.      | Kokrajhar        | Assam               | Guwahati            |
| 19.      | Mangaldoi        | Assam               | Guwahati            |
| 20.      | North Lakhimpur  | Assam               | Guwahati            |
| 21.      | Silchar          | Assam               | Guwahati            |
| 22.      | Sonitpur(Tezpur) | Assam               | Guwahati            |
| 23.      | Tinsukia         | Assam               | Guwahati            |
| 24.      | Begusarai        | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 25.      | Buxar            | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 26.      | Chhapra          | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 27.      | East Champaran   | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 28.      | Gaya             | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 29.      | Madhubani        | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 30.      | Munger           | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 31.      | Muzaffarpur      | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 32.      | Nalanda          | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 33.      | Navada           | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 34.      | Purnea           | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 35.      | Bhagalpur        | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 36.      | Samastipur       | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 37.      | Siwan            | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 38.      | Bettiah          | Bihar               | Patna               |
| 39.      | Bilaspur         | Chhattisgarh        | Raipur              |
| 40.      | Durg             | Chhattisgarh        | Raipur              |
| 41.      | Rajnandgaon      | Chhattisgarh        | Raipur              |
| 42.      | Surguja          | Chhattisgarh        | Raipur              |
| 43.      | Silvasa          | Dadar &Nagar Haveli | Mumbai              |
| 44.      | Daman            | Daman               | Mumbai              |
| 45.      | Janak Puri       | Delhi               | Delhi               |
| 46.      | Nehru Place      | Delhi               | Delhi               |
| 47.      | Patparganj       | Delhi               | Delhi               |
| 48.      | Yamuna Vihar     | Delhi               | Delhi               |
| 49.      | South Goa        | Goa                 | Panaji              |
| 50.      | Anand            | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |
| 51.      | Bharuch          | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad Ahmedabad |
| 52. 53.  | Dahod Jamnagar   | Gujarat Gujarat     | Ahmedabad           |
| 54.      | Junagadh         | Gujarat             | Ahmedabad           |

| 55.       | Kheda               | Gujarat                       | Ahmedabad      |
|-----------|---------------------|-------------------------------|----------------|
| 56.       | Palanpur            | Gujarat                       | Ahmedabad      |
| 57.       | Bhuj                | Gujarat                       | Ahmedabad      |
| 58.       | Bhavnagar           | Gujarat                       | Ahmedabad      |
| 59.       | Mehsana             | Gujarat                       | Ahmedabad      |
| 60.       | Porbandar           | Gujarat                       | Ahmedabad      |
| 61.       | Veraval             | Gujarat                       | Ahmedabad      |
| 62.       | Navsari             | Gujarat                       | Surat          |
| 63.       | Valsad              | Gujarat                       | Surat          |
| 64.       | Bhiwani             | Haryana                       | Chandigarh     |
| 65.       | Kaithal             | Haryana                       | Chandigarh     |
| 66.       | Karnal              | Haryana                       | Chandigarh     |
| 67.       | Hisar               | Haryana                       | Chandigarh     |
| 68.       | Panipat             | Haryana                       | Chandigarh     |
| 69.       | Yamunanagar         | Haryana                       | Chandigarh     |
| 70.       | Faridabad           | Haryana                       | Delhi          |
| 71.       | Mandi               | Himachal Pradesh              | Shimla         |
| 72.       | Palampur            | Himachal Pradesh              | Shimla         |
| 73.       | Hamirpur            | Himachal Pradesh              | Shimla         |
| 74.       | Kangra              | Himachal Pradesh              | Shimla         |
| 75.       | Kullu               | Himachal Pradesh              | Shimla         |
| 76.       | Una                 | Himachal Pradesh              | Shimla         |
| 77.       | Kathua              | Jammu &Kashmir                | Jammu          |
| 78. 79.   | Rajouri Anantnag    | Jammu &Kashmir Jammu &Kashmir | Jammu Srinagar |
| 81.       | Udhampur            | Jammu &Kashmir                | Srinagar Jammu |
| 80.       | Baramulla           | Jammu &Kashmir                |                |
| 82.       | Leh                 | Jammu &Kashmir                | Srinagar       |
| 83.       | Bokaro              | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi         |
| 84.       | Hazaribagh          | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi         |
| 85.       | Jamshedpur          | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi         |
| 86.       | Deoghar             | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi         |
| 87.       | Dhanbad             | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi         |
| 88.       | Dumka               | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi         |
| 89.       | Medininagar         | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi         |
| 90.       | Mysuru              | Karnataka                     | Bangaluru      |
| 91.       | Belagavi            | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru      |
| 92.       | Bellary             | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru      |
| 93.       | Bidar               | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru      |
| 94.       | Davangere           | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru      |
| 95.       | Gadag               | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru      |
| 96.       | Hassan              | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru      |
| 97.       | Raichur             | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru      |
| 98.       | Shivamogga          | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru      |
| 99.       | Tumakuru            | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru      |
| 100. 101. | Udupi               | Karnataka Karnataka           | Bengaluru      |
|           | Vijayapur           |                               | Bengaluru      |
| 102.      | Chengannur          | Kerala                        | Cochin         |
| 103.      | Idukki (Kattappana) | Kerala                        | Cochin         |
| 104.      | Kasargod            | Kerala                        | Kozhikode      |
| 105.      | Pathanamthitta      | Kerala                        | Trivandrum     |
| 106.      | Kavaratti           | Lakshadweep                   | Cochin         |
| 107.      | Balaghat            | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal Bhopal  |
| 108.      | Chhindwara          | Madhya Pradesh                |                |
| 109.      | Damoh               | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal Bhopal  |
| 110. 111. | Dewas Vidisha       | Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal         |
| 112.      | Jabalpur            | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal         |
| 113.      | Gwalior             | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal         |
| 114.      | Ratlam              | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal         |

| 115.      | Satna               | Madhya Pradesh      | Bhopal                   |
|-----------|---------------------|---------------------|--------------------------|
| 116.      | Ahmednagar          | Maharashtra         | Pune                     |
| 117.      | Aurangabad          | Maharashtra         | Mumbai                   |
| 118.      | Beed                | Maharashtra         | Pune                     |
| 119.      | Ghatkopar/Vikhroli  | Maharashtra         | Mumbai                   |
| 120.      | Jalgaon             | Maharashtra         | Mumbai                   |
| 121.      | Jalna               | Maharashtra         | Pune                     |
| 122.      | Wardha              | Maharashtra         | Nagpur                   |
| 123.      | Kolhapur            | Maharashtra         | Pune                     |
| 124.      | Nanded              | Maharashtra         | Pune                     |
| 125.      | Pandharpur          | Maharashtra         | Pune                     |
| 126.      | Pimpri Chinchwad    | Maharashtra         | Pune                     |
| 127.      | Sangli              | Maharashtra         | Pune                     |
| 128.      | Satara              | Maharashtra         | Pune                     |
| 129.      | Tura                | Meghalaya           | Guwahati                 |
| 130.      | Balasore            | Odisha              | Bhubaneshwar             |
| 131.      | Baripada            | Odisha              | Bhubaneshwar             |
| 132.      | Berhampur           | Odisha              | Bhubaneshwar             |
| 133.      | Bhawanipatna        | Odisha              | Bhubaneshwar             |
| 134.      | Rourkela            | Odisha              | Bhubaneshwar             |
| 135.      | Sambalpur           | Odisha              | Bhubaneshwar             |
| 136.      | Koraput             | Odisha              | Bhubaneshwar             |
| 137.      | Karaikal            | Puducherry          | Tiruchirapalli           |
| 138. 139. | Bathinda Patiala    | Punjab Punjab       | Chandigarh Chandigarh    |
| 140.      | Pathankot           | Punjab              | Jalandhar                |
| 141.      | Phagwara            | Punjab              | Jalandhar                |
| 142.      | Moga                | Punjab              | Jalandhar                |
| 143.      | Ajmer               | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 144.      | Alwar               | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 145.      | Banswara            | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 146.      | Barmer              | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 147.      | Chittorgarh         | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 148.      | Churu               | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 149.      | Karauli-Dhaulpur    | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 150.      | Kota                | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 151.      | Bikaner             | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 152.      | Hanumangarh         | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 153.      | Jhunjhunu           | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 154.      | Jaisalmer           | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 155.      | Jhalawar            | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 156.      | Nagaur              | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 157.      | Pali                | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 158.      | Sriganganagar       | Rajasthan           | Jaipur                   |
| 159.      | Cuddalore           | Tamil Nadu          | Chennai                  |
| 160.      | Devakottai          | Tamil Nadu          | Madurai                  |
| 161.      | Tiruvannamalai      | Tamil Nadu          | Chennai                  |
| 162.      | Vellore             | Tamil Nadu          | Chennai                  |
| 163.      | Viluppuram          | Tamil Nadu          | Chennai                  |
| 164.      | Rasipuram           | Tamil Nadu          | Coimbatore               |
| 165.      | Salem               | Tamil Nadu          | Coimbatore               |
| 166.      | Kanyakumari         | Tamil Nadu          | Madurai                  |
| 167.      | Dindigul(Kodairoad) | Tamil Nadu          | Madurai                  |
| 168.      | Virudhunagar        | Tamil Nadu          | Madurai                  |
| 169.      | Perambalur          | Tamil Nadu          | Tiruchirapalli Hyderabad |
| 170. 171. | Adilabad Khammam    | Telangana Telangana | Hyderabad                |
| 172.      | Medak               | Telangana           | Hyderabad                |
| 173.      | Mehbubnagar         | Telangana           | Hyderabad                |
| 174.      | Nalgonda            | Telangana           | Hyderabad                |

|   175. | Siddipet                      | Telangana     | Hyderabad   |
|--------|-------------------------------|---------------|-------------|
|    176 | Warangal (Hanamkonda)         | Telangana     | Hyderabad   |
|    177 | Amethi                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    178 | Bijnaur                       | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly    |
|    179 | Chunar                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    180 | Moradabad                     | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly    |
|    181 | Pilibhit                      | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly    |
|    182 | Agra                          | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|    183 | Mathura                       | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|    184 | Meerut                        | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|    185 | Ballia                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    186 | Balrampur                     | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    187 | Jhansi                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    188 | Ghazipur                      | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    189 | Ayodhya/ Faizabad             | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    190 | Allahabad                     | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    191 | Azamgarh                      | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    192 | Bahraich                      | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    193 | Deoria                        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    194 | Gonda                         | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    195 | Jaunpur                       | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    196 | Mau                           | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    197 | Unnao                         | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    198 | Pratapgarh                    | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    199 | Rae Bareli                    | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    200 | Rampur                        | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly    |
|    201 | Sitapur                       | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    202 | Sultanpur                     | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|    203 | Almora                        | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun    |
|    204 | Haldwani (Kathgodam)          | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun    |
|    205 | Nainital                      | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun    |
|    206 | Roorkee                       | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun    |
|    207 | Rudrapur                      | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun    |
|    208 | Srinagar                      | Uttarakhand   | Dehradun    |
|    209 | Asansol                       | West Bengal   | Kolkata     |
|    210 | Bardhman                      | West Bengal   | Kolkata     |
|    211 | Raiganj (North Dinajpur)      | West Bengal   | Kolkata     |
|    212 | Nadia (Krishnanagar)          | West Bengal   | Kolkata     |
|    213 | North Kolkata (Beadon Street) | West Bengal   | Kolkata     |
|    214 | Malda                         | West Bengal   | Kolkata     |
|    215 | Barrackpore                   | West Bengal   | Kolkata     |

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