Lok Sabha Question No. 2718 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-12-04
Subject: Passport Offices in Seoni
Ministry: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: Dhal Singh Bisen

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2718 TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.12.2019

## PASSPORT OFFICES IN SEONI

## † 2718. DR. DHAL SINGH BISEN:

Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of passport offices to be opened by the Government at district level along with the details thereof;
- (b) whether there is a proposal to open passport office in Seoni district under Balaghat (MP) Parliamentary Constituency;
- (c) if so, the details thereof;
- (d) if not, the reasons for not opening the passport office so far; and
- (e) the time by which the passport office is likely to be opened In Seoni by the Government?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

## [SHRI V. MURALEEDHARAN]

- (a) The Ministry   in   association   with   the   Department   of   Posts   decided   in January 2017 to open Passport Kendras at the Head Post Offices (HPO)/ Post Offices (PO) in the country called 'Post Office Passport Seva Kendra' (POPSK) in order to bring passport services closer to people residing in villages/remote/rural areas of the country. Under this initiative, there are 424 POPSKs operational in the country as on 31 st  October, 2019. This list is at Annexure - I . In addition, there are 93 Passport Seva Kendras (PSK) operational in the country as on 28 th November, 2019. The list is at Annexure - II . The total functional Passport Seva Kendras in the country is 517 which are working as extended arms of the 36 Passport Offices in the country. The list of these Passport Offices is at Annexure III .
- (b) & (c) Yes, there is a proposal to open a POPSK in Seoni.
- (d) & (e) The Ministry is working closely with the Department of Posts for the early operationalisation of POPSK at Seoni.

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## STATE-WISE    LIST OF  POST OFFICE PASSPORT SEVA KENDRAS (POPSKs)

| S.No.   | Locations                 | State/UT                | Passport Office   |
|---------|---------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------|
| 1       | Anantpur                  | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 2       | Bapatla                   | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 3       | Chittoor                  | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 4       | Gudivada                  | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 5       | Guntur                    | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 6       | Hindupur                  | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 7       | Kadappa                   | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 8       | Kodur                     | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 9       | Kurnool                   | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 10      | Nandyal                   | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 11      | Narasaraopet              | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 12      | Nellore                   | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 13      | Ongole                    | Andhra Pradesh          | Vijayawada        |
| 14      | Amalapuram                | Andhra Pradesh          | Visakhapatnam     |
| 15      | Eluru                     | Andhra Pradesh          | Visakhapatnam     |
| 16      | Kakinada                  | Andhra Pradesh          | Visakhapatnam     |
| 17      | Rajamundry                | Andhra Pradesh          | Visakhapatnam     |
| 18      | Srikakulam                | Andhra Pradesh          | Visakhapatnam     |
| 19      | Vizianagaram              | Andhra Pradesh          | Visakhapatnam     |
| 20      | Yelamanchili              | Andhra Pradesh          | Visakhapatnam     |
| 21      | Changlang                 | Arunachal Pradesh       | Guwahati          |
| 22      | Khonsa                    | Arunachal Pradesh Assam | Guwahati Guwahati |
| 23 24   | Barpeta Dhubri            | Assam                   | Guwahati          |
| 25      | Dibrugarh                 | Assam                   | Guwahati          |
| 26      | Goalpara                  | Assam                   | Guwahati          |
| 27      | Golaghat                  | Assam                   | Guwahati          |
| 28      | Jorhat                    | Assam                   | Guwahati          |
| 29      | Karbi Anglong             | Assam                   | Guwahati          |
| 30      | Karimganj                 | Assam                   | Guwahati          |
| 31      | Kokrajhar                 | Assam                   | Guwahati          |
| 32      | Mangaldoi                 | Assam                   | Guwahati          |
| 33      | Nawgong                   | Assam                   | Guwahati          |
| 34      | North Lakhimpur           | Assam                   | Guwahati          |
| 35      | Silchar Tezpur            | Assam                   | Guwahati Guwahati |
| 36 37   | Tinsukia                  | Assam Assam             | Guwahati          |
| 38      |                           |                         |                   |
| 39      | Arrah Aurangabad          | Bihar                   | Patna Patna       |
| 40      | Banka                     | Bihar Bihar             | Patna             |
| 41      | Begusarai                 | Bihar                   | Patna             |
| 42      | Bettiah                   | Bihar                   | Patna             |
|         |                           |                         | Patna             |
| 43      | Bhagalpur                 | Bihar                   |                   |
| 44      | Buxar                     | Bihar                   | Patna             |
| 45      | Chhapra                   | Bihar                   | Patna             |
| 46      | Dalmia Nagar              | Bihar Bihar             | Patna Patna       |
| 47 48   | Dalsingh Sarai Forbesganj | Bihar                   | Patna             |
| 49      | Gaya                      | Bihar                   | Patna             |
|         |                           |                         | Patna             |
| 50      | Gopalganj                 | Bihar                   |                   |
| 51 52   | Hajipur Jahanabad         | Bihar                   | Patna Patna       |
| 53      | Jamui                     | Bihar Bihar             | Patna             |
|         |                           |                         | Patna             |
| 54      | Katihar                   | Bihar                   |                   |
| 55      | Khagaria                  | Bihar                   | Patna Patna       |
| 56 57   | Kishanganj Madhubani      | Bihar Bihar             | Patna             |
| 58      | Maner                     | Bihar                   | Patna             |
| 59      | Motihari                  | Bihar                   | Patna Patna       |
| 60      | Munger                    | Bihar                   | Patna             |
| 61      | Muzaffarpur               | Bihar                   | Patna             |
| 62 63   | Nalanda Navada            | Bihar Bihar             | Patna             |

| 64      | Purnea                       | Bihar                    | Patna                 |
|---------|------------------------------|--------------------------|-----------------------|
| 65      | Saharsa                      | Bihar                    | Patna                 |
| 66      | Samastipur                   | Bihar                    | Patna                 |
| 67      | Sasaram                      | Bihar                    | Patna                 |
| 68      | Sheohar                      | Bihar                    | Patna                 |
| 69      | Sitamarhi                    | Bihar                    | Patna                 |
| 70      | Siwan                        | Bihar                    | Patna                 |
| 71      | Bilaspur                     | Chhattisgarh             | Raipur                |
| 72      | Durg                         | Chhattisgarh             | Raipur                |
| 73      | Janjgir-Champa               | Chhattisgarh             | Raipur                |
| 74      | Korba                        | Chhattisgarh             | Raipur                |
| 75      | Raigarh                      | Chhattisgarh             | Raipur                |
| 76      | Rajnandgaon                  | Chhattisgarh             | Raipur                |
| 77      | Surguja                      | Chhattisgarh             | Raipur                |
| 78      | Silvasa                      | Nagar Haveli             | Mumbai                |
| 79      | Daman                        | Dadar & Daman            |                       |
|         | Janak Puri                   | Delhi                    | Mumbai                |
| 80 81   | Mehrauli                     |                          | Delhi                 |
| 82      | Nehru Place                  | Delhi                    | Delhi                 |
| 83      | Patparganj                   | Delhi Delhi              | Delhi Delhi           |
| 84      | Yamuna Vihar                 | Delhi                    | Delhi                 |
| 85      | Margao                       | Goa                      | Panaji                |
| 86 87   | Amreli Anand                 | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad             |
| 88      | Bardoli                      | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad Surat       |
|         |                              | Gujarat                  |                       |
| 89      | Bharuch                      | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad             |
| 90      | Bhavnagar                    | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad             |
| 91      | Bhuj                         | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad Ahmedabad   |
| 92 93   | Chhota Udaipur Dahod         | Gujarat Gujarat          | Ahmedabad             |
| 94      | Gandhinagar                  | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad             |
| 95      | Godhra                       | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad Ahmedabad   |
| 96      | Jamnagar                     | Gujarat                  |                       |
|         |                              |                          | Ahmedabad             |
| 97      | Junagadh                     | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad             |
| 98 99   | Kheda Mehsana                | Gujarat Gujarat          | Ahmedabad             |
| 100     | Navsari                      | Gujarat                  | Surat Ahmedabad       |
| 101     |                              | Gujarat                  |                       |
| 102     | Palanpur Patan               | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad             |
| 103     | Porbandar                    | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad             |
| 104     | Rajpipla                     | Gujarat                  | Surat                 |
| 105     | Sabarkantha                  | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad             |
| 106     | Surendranagar                | Gujarat                  | Ahmedabad             |
|         | Valsad                       |                          | Surat Ahmedabad       |
| 107     |                              | Gujarat                  |                       |
| 108     | Veraval Bhiwani Mahendragarh | Gujarat                  | Chandigarh            |
| 109 110 | Faridabad                    | Haryana Haryana          | Delhi                 |
| 111     | Hisar                        | Haryana                  | Chandigarh            |
| 112     | Kaithal                      | Haryana                  | Chandigarh Chandigarh |
| 113     | Karnal                       | Haryana                  | Delhi                 |
| 114     | Narnaul                      | Haryana                  |                       |
| 115 116 | Panipat                      | Haryana                  | Chandigarh Delhi      |
|         | Rohtak                       | Haryana                  | Chandigarh            |
| 117 118 | Sirsa                        | Haryana                  | Delhi                 |
|         | Sonipat                      | Haryana                  | Chandigarh            |
| 119     |                              | Haryana                  |                       |
| 120     | Yamunanagar Hamirpur         | Himachal                 | Shimla Shimla         |
| 121 122 | Kangra                       | Pradesh Himachal         |                       |
|         |                              | Pradesh Himachal Pradesh | Shimla                |
| 123     | Kullu Mandi                  | Himachal Pradesh         | Shimla                |
| 124     |                              | Himachal                 | Shimla                |
| 125     | Palampur Una                 | Pradesh Himachal Pradesh | Shimla                |
| 126     | Kathua                       | Jammu & Kashmir          | Jammu                 |
|         |                              |                          | Jammu                 |
| 127     | Rajouri                      | Jammu & Kashmir          | Jammu                 |
| 128     | Udhampur                     | Jammu & Kashmir          |                       |
| 129     | Anantnag                     | Jammu & Kashmir          | Srinagar              |
|         |                              | Jammu & Kashmir          |                       |
| 130     | Baramulla                    |                          | Srinagar              |

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| 131     | Leh                  | Jammu & Kashmir               | Srinagar            |
|---------|----------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------|
| 132     | Bokaro               | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 133     | Chaibasha            | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 134     | Deoghar              | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 135     | Dhanbad              | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 136     | Dumka                | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 137     | Giridih              | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 138     | Gumla                | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 139     | Hazaribagh           | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 140     | Jamshedpur           | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 141     | Jumri Tilaiya        | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 142     | Khunti               | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 143     | Medininagar          | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 144     | Sahibganj            | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 145     | Shimaria             | Jharkhand                     | Ranchi              |
| 146     | Ankola               | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 147     | Bagalkot             | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 148     | Belagavi             | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 149     | Bellary              | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 150     | Bidar                | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 151     | Chamrajanagar        | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 152     | Channapatna          | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 153     | Chikkballapur        | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 154     | Chikkodi             | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 155     | Chitradurga          | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 156     | Davangere            | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 157     | Gadag                | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 158     | Hassan               | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
|         | Jalahalli            | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 159 160 | Koppal               | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 161 162 | Maddur Mysuru        | Karnataka Karnataka           | Bengaluru Bengaluru |
| 163     | Raichur              | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
|         | Robertsonpet         | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru           |
| 165 166 | Shivamogga Tumakuru  | Karnataka Karnataka           | Bengaluru           |
| 164     |                      |                               | Bengaluru           |
| 167     | Udupi                | Karnataka                     | Bengaluru Bengaluru |
| 168     | Vijayapur            | Karnataka                     |                     |
|         |                      | Kerala                        | Cochin              |
| 169 170 | Chengannur           |                               | Cochin              |
| 171     | Kattappana Nenmara   | Kerala Kerala                 | Cochin              |
| 172 173 | Palakkad             | Kerala                        | Cochin              |
|         | Kasargod             | Kerala                        | Kozhikode           |
| 174     | Attingal             | Kerala                        | Trivandrum          |
| 175 176 | Pathanamthitta       | Kerala                        | Trivandrum Cochin   |
|         | Kavaratti            | Lakshadweep                   | Bhopal              |
| 177     | Balaghat             | Madhya Pradesh                |                     |
| 178     | Betul                | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal              |
| 179     | Chhatarpur           | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal Bhopal       |
| 180     | Chhindwara           | Madhya Pradesh                |                     |
|         |                      | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal              |
| 181     | Damoh                |                               |                     |
| 182     | Dewas                | Madhya Pradesh Madhya         | Bhopal Bhopal       |
| 183 184 | Dhar                 | Pradesh Madhya Pradesh        | Bhopal              |
| 185     | Gwalior              | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal              |
| 186     | Hoshangabad Jabalpur | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal              |
| 187     | Ratlam               | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal Bhopal       |
| 188     | Rewa                 | Madhya Pradesh                |                     |
| 189     |                      |                               | Bhopal              |
| 190     | Sagar Satna          | Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal              |
| 191     | Tikamgarh            | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal              |
| 192     | Ujjain               | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal              |
| 193     | Vidisha              | Madhya Pradesh                | Bhopal              |
| 194     | Aurangabad           | Maharashtra                   | Mumbai              |
| 195     | Bhiwandi             | Maharashtra                   | Mumbai              |
| 196     | Bhusawal             | Maharashtra                   | Mumbai              |
| 197     |                      | Maharashtra                   | Mumbai              |
|         | Dhule                |                               |                     |

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| 198     | Jalgaon               | Maharashtra             | Mumbai                  |
|---------|-----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
| 199     | Rajapur               | Maharashtra             | Mumbai                  |
| 200     | Santa Cruz            | Maharashtra             | Mumbai                  |
| 201     | Sion                  | Maharashtra             | Mumbai                  |
| 202     | Vashi                 | Maharashtra             | Mumbai                  |
| 203     | Vikroli               | Maharashtra             | Mumbai                  |
| 204     | Ahmednagar            | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 205     | Baramati              | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 206     | Beed                  | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 207     | Ichalkaranji          | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 208     | Jalna                 | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 209     | Kolhapur              | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 210     | Latur                 |                         | Pune                    |
| 211     | Madha                 | Maharashtra Maharashtra |                         |
|         |                       |                         | Pune                    |
| 212     | Nanded                | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 213     | Osmanabad             | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 214     | Pandharpur            | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 215     | Parbhani              | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 216     | Pimpri Chinchwad      | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 217     | Sangli                | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 218     | Satara                | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 219     | Shirur                | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 220     | Srirampur             | Maharashtra             | Pune                    |
| 221     | Akola                 | Maharashtra             | Nagpur                  |
| 222     | Amravati              | Maharashtra             | Nagpur                  |
| 223     | Bhandara              | Maharashtra             | Nagpur                  |
| 224     | Buldhana              | Maharashtra             | Nagpur                  |
| 225     | Chandrapur            | Maharashtra             | Nagpur                  |
| 226     | Gadchiroli            | Maharashtra             | Nagpur                  |
| 227     | Hingoli               | Maharashtra             | Nagpur                  |
| 228 229 | Katoal Wardha         | Maharashtra Maharashtra | Nagpur Nagpur           |
| 230     |                       | Maharashtra             | Nagpur                  |
|         | Yavatmal              |                         | Guwahati                |
| 231     | Kakching              | Manipur                 |                         |
| 232 233 | Tura Aska             | Meghalaya Odisha        | Guwahati Bhubaneswar    |
| 234     | Balasore              | Odisha                  | Bhubaneswar             |
|         |                       |                         | Bhubaneswar             |
| 235     | Bargarh               | Odisha                  | Bhubaneswar             |
| 236     | Baripada              | Odisha                  |                         |
| 237 238 | Berhampur Bhadrak     | Odisha Odisha           | Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar |
| 239     | Bhawanipatna          | Odisha                  | Bhubaneswar             |
| 240     | Bolangir              | Odisha                  | Bhubaneswar             |
| 241     | Cuttack               | Odisha                  | Bhubaneswar             |
| 242     | Dhenkanal             | Odisha                  | Bhubaneswar             |
|         |                       |                         | Bhubaneswar             |
| 243     | Jagatsinghpur         | Odisha                  |                         |
| 244     | Jajpur                | Odisha                  | Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar |
| 245 246 | Kendrapara            | Odisha Odisha           | Bhubaneswar             |
| 247     | Keonjhar Koraput      | Odisha                  | Bhubaneswar             |
| 248     | Nabarangpur           | Odisha                  | Bhubaneswar             |
| 249     | Phulbani              | Odisha                  | Bhubaneswar             |
| 250     | Puri                  | Odisha                  | Bhubaneswar             |
| 251     | Rourkela              |                         | Bhubaneswar             |
| 252     |                       | Odisha Odisha           | Bhubaneswar             |
| 253     | Sambalpur Karaikal    | Puducherry              | Tiruchirapalli          |
| 254 255 | Basi Pattana Bathinda | Punjab Punjab           | Chandigarh Chandigarh   |
| 256     | Firozpur              | Punjab                  | Amritsar                |
| 257     | Malerkotla            | Punjab                  | Chandigarh Jalandhar    |
| 258     | Moga                  | Punjab                  |                         |
| 259     | Pathankot             | Punjab                  | Jalandhar               |
| 260     |                       |                         | Chandigarh              |
|         | Patiala               | Punjab                  | Jalandhar               |
| 261     | Phagwara              | Punjab                  | Chandigarh              |
| 262     | Ropar                 | Punjab                  |                         |
| 263     | Ajmer                 |                         | Jaipur                  |
|         |                       | Rajasthan               |                         |
|         |                       | Rajasthan               | Jaipur                  |
| 264     | Alwar                 |                         |                         |

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| 265     | Banswara                 | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
|---------|--------------------------|-----------------------|--------------------------------|
| 266     | Barmer                   | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 267     | Bharatpur                | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 268     | Bhilwara                 | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 269     | Bikaner                  | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 270     | Chittorgarh              | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 271     | Churu                    | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 272     | Dausa                    | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 273     | Hanumangarh              | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 274     | Jaisalmer                | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 275     | Jhalawar                 | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 276     | Jhunjhunu                | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 277     | Kankroli                 | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 278     | Karauli-Dhaulpur         | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 279     | Kota                     | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 280     | Kotputli                 | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 281     | Nagaur                   | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 282     | Pali                     | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 283     | Pratapgarh               | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 284     | Sawai Madhopur           | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 285     | Sirohi                   | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 286     | Sriganganagar            | Rajasthan             | Jaipur                         |
| 287     | Arani                    | Tamil Nadu            | Chennai                        |
| 288     | Chennai GPO              | Tamil Nadu            | Chennai                        |
| 289     | Chidambaram              | Tamil Nadu            | Chennai                        |
| 290     | Cuddalore                | Tamil Nadu            | Chennai                        |
|         |                          | Tamil Nadu            | Chennai                        |
| 291     | Dharmapuri               | Tamil Nadu            | Chennai                        |
| 292     | Kallakurichi             | Tamil Nadu            |                                |
| 293 294 | Kancheepuram Krishnagiri | Tamil Nadu            | Chennai Chennai                |
| 295 296 | Ranipet Tiruvallur       | Tamil Nadu            | Chennai Chennai                |
|         |                          | Tamil Nadu            | Chennai                        |
| 297     | Tiruvannamalai           | Tamil Nadu            | Chennai                        |
| 298     | Vellore                  | Tamil Nadu            |                                |
|         | Viluppuram               |                       | Chennai                        |
| 299 300 | Coonoor                  | Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu | Coimbatore                     |
| 301     | Erode Rasipuram          | Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu | Coimbatore Coimbatore          |
| 302     |                          |                       | Coimbatore                     |
| 303     | Salem                    | Tamil Nadu Nadu       | Madurai                        |
| 304     | Bodineyaknur             | Tamil                 | Madurai                        |
| 305     | Devakottai               | Tamil Nadu            |                                |
| 306     | Kodairoad                | Tamil Nadu            | Madurai                        |
| 307 308 | Nagercoil Rajpalyam      | Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu | Madurai Madurai                |
| 309     |                          | Tamil                 | Madurai                        |
|         | Ramathapuram             | Nadu                  | Madurai                        |
| 310     | Thoothukkudi             | Tamil Nadu            |                                |
| 311     | Virudhunagar             | Tamil Nadu            | Madurai                        |
| 312     | Karur                    | Tamil Nadu            | Tiruchirappalli                |
| 313     | Perambalur               | Tamil Nadu            | Tiruchirapalli Tiruchirappalli |
| 314     | Sirkali                  | Tamil Nadu            | Tiruchirappalli                |
| 315     | Thiruthuraipoondi        | Tamil Nadu            |                                |
| 316     | Adilabad                 | Telangana             | Hyderabad                      |
| 317     | Bhongir                  | Telangana             | Hyderabad                      |
| 318     | Kamareddy                | Telangana             | Hyderabad                      |
| 319     | Khammam                  | Telangana             | Hyderabad Hyderabad            |
| 320     | Mahabubabad              | Telangana             | Hyderabad                      |
| 321 322 | Mancherial               | Telangana             | Hyderabad                      |
|         | Medak                    | Telangana             | Hyderabad                      |
| 323     |                          |                       |                                |
| 324     | Medchal Mehbubnagar      | Telangana Telangana   | Hyderabad                      |
| 325     | Nalgonda                 | Telangana             | Hyderabad                      |
| 326     | Siddipet                 | Telangana             | Hyderabad                      |
| 327     | Vikarabad                | Telangana             | Hyderabad                      |
|         |                          |                       | Hyderabad                      |
| 328 329 | Wanaparthy Warangal      | Telangana Telangana   | Hyderabad                      |
| 330     | Dhramanagar              | Tripura               | Kolkata                        |
|         |                          | Uttar Pradesh         | Bareilly                       |
| 331     | Amroha                   |                       |                                |

| 332     | Badaun               | Uttar Pradesh               | Bareilly        |
|---------|----------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------|
| 333     | Bijnaur              | Uttar Pradesh               | Bareilly        |
| 334     | Moradabad            | Uttar Pradesh               | Bareilly        |
| 335     | Pilibhit             | Uttar Pradesh               | Bareilly        |
| 336     | Rampur               | Uttar Pradesh               | Bareilly        |
| 337     | Shahjahanpur         | Uttar Pradesh               | Bareilly        |
| 338     | Achnera              | Uttar Pradesh               | Ghaziabad       |
| 339     | Agra                 | Uttar Pradesh               | Ghaziabad       |
| 340     | Aligarh              | Uttar Pradesh               | Ghaziabad       |
| 341     | Baghpat              | Uttar Pradesh               | Ghaziabad       |
| 342     | Bulandshahr          | Uttar Pradesh               | Ghaziabad       |
| 343     | Hathras              | Uttar Pradesh               | Ghaziabad       |
| 344     | Meerut               | Uttar Pradesh               | Ghaziabad       |
| 345     | Muzaffarnagar        | Uttar Pradesh               | Ghaziabad       |
| 346     | Noida                | Uttar Pradesh               | Ghaziabad       |
| 347     | Saharanpur           | Uttar Pradesh               | Ghaziabad       |
| 348     | Vrindawan            | Uttar Pradesh               | Ghaziabad       |
| 349     | Allahabad            | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 350     | Ambedkar Nagar       | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 351     | Amethi               | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 352     | Ayodhya              | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 353     | Azamgarh             | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 354     | Bahraich             | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 355     | Ballia               | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 356     | Balrampur            | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow Lucknow |
| 357     | Banda                | Uttar Pradesh               |                 |
| 358     | Bhadohi              | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 359 360 | Chunar               | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow Lucknow |
| 361     | Deoria               | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 362     | Farrukhabad Fatehpur | Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
| 363     | Ghazipur             | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 364     | Gonda                | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 365     | Goshi (Mau)          | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
|         | Hamirpur             |                             | Lucknow         |
| 366 367 | Hardoi               | Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow         |
| 368     | Jaunpur              | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 369     | Jhansi               | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 370     | Kheri                | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 371     | Maharajganj          | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 372     | Misrikh              | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 373     | Pratapgarh           | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 374     | Rae Bareli           | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 375     | Siddharth Nagar      | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 376     | Sitapur              | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 377     | Sultanpur            | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 378     | Unnao                | Uttar Pradesh               | Lucknow         |
| 379     | Almora               | Uttarakhand                 | Dehradun        |
| 380     | Kathgodam            | Uttarakhand                 | Dehradun        |
| 381     | Nainital             | Uttarakhand                 | Dehradun        |
| 382     | Roorkee              | Uttarakhand                 | Dehradun        |
| 383     |                      | Uttarakhand                 | Dehradun        |
| 384     | Rudrapur Srinagar    | Uttarakhand                 | Dehradun        |
| 385     |                      |                             | Kolkata         |
| 386     | Alipurduar Amta      | West Bengal West Bengal     | Kolkata         |
| 387     | Arambagh             | West Bengal                 | Kolkata         |
| 388     | Asansol              | West Bengal                 | Kolkata         |
| 389     | Ashok Nagar          | West Bengal                 | Kolkata         |
|         |                      | West Bengal                 | Kolkata         |
| 390 391 | Balurghat            |                             | Kolkata         |
|         | Bangaon              | West Bengal West Bengal     | Kolkata         |
| 392 393 | Bankura              | West Bengal                 | Kolkata         |
|         | Bardhaman            | West Bengal                 | Kolkata         |
| 394     | Barrackpore          |                             | Kolkata         |
| 395     | Basirhat             | West Bengal                 |                 |
| 396     | Beadon Street        | West Bengal                 | Kolkata         |
| 397     | Bishnupur            |                             | Kolkata         |
|         |                      | West Bengal                 |                 |
| 398     | Bolpur               | West Bengal                 | Kolkata         |

7

|   399 | Canning Road Ferry Ghat   | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|-------|---------------------------|---------------|-----------|
|   400 | Chinsurah                 | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   401 | Coochbehar                | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   402 | Darjeeling                | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   403 | Diamond Harbour           | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   404 | Dum Dum                   | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   405 | Ghatal                    | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   406 | Howrah                    | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   407 | Jadavpur                  | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   408 | Jalpaiguri                | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   409 | Jhargram                  | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   410 | Jiyaganj                  | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   411 | Kakdweep                  | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   412 | Kanthi                    | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   413 | Katwa                     | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   414 | Kharagpur                 | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   415 | Krishnanagar              | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   416 | Makdumpur                 | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   417 | North Dinajpur            | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   418 | Purulia                   | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   419 | Raghunathganj             | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   420 | Rampurhat                 | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   421 | Ranaghat                  | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   422 | Samsi                     | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   423 | Serampore                 | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   424 | Tamluk                    | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |

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## 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,Thiruvananthapuram (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    |                   |            93 |                                                                                                                                                            |

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STATE WISE RPO LIST

|   Sl. No. | State             | RPO                 |
|-----------|-------------------|---------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh    | RPO Vijayawada      |
|         2 | Andhra Pradesh    | RPO Visakhapatnam   |
|         3 | Assam             | RPO Guwahati        |
|         4 | Bihar             | RPO Patna           |
|         5 | Chandigarh        | RPO Chandigarh      |
|         6 | Chhattisgarh      | RPO Raipur          |
|         7 | Delhi             | RPO Delhi           |
|         8 | Goa               | RPO Goa             |
|         9 | Gujarat           | RPO Ahmedabad       |
|        10 | Gujarat           | RPO Surat           |
|        11 | Himachal Pradesh  | RPO Shimla          |
|        12 | Jammu and Kashmir | RPO Jammu           |
|        13 | Jammu and Kashmir | RPO Srinagar        |
|        14 | Jharkhand         | RPO Ranchi          |
|        15 | Karnataka         | RPO Bengaluru       |
|        16 | Kerala            | RPO Cochin          |
|        17 | Kerala            | RPO Kozhikode       |
|        18 | Kerala            | RPO Trivandrum      |
|        19 | Madhya Pradesh    | RPO Bhopal          |
|        20 | Maharashtra       | RPO Nagpur          |
|        21 | Maharashtra       | RPO Pune            |
|        22 | Maharashtra       | RPO Mumbai          |
|        23 | Odisha            | RPO Bhubaneswar     |
|        24 | Punjab            | RPO Amritsar        |
|        25 | Punjab            | RPO Jalandhar       |
|        26 | Rajasthan         | RPO Jaipur          |
|        27 | Tamil Nadu        | RPO Madurai         |
|        28 | Tamil Nadu        | RPO Tiruchirappalli |
|        29 | Tamil Nadu        | RPO Chennai         |
|        30 | Tamil Nadu        | RPO Coimbatore      |
|        31 | Telangana         | RPO Hyderabad       |
|        32 | Uttar Pradesh     | RPO Bareilly        |
|        33 | Uttar Pradesh     | RPO Ghaziabad       |
|        34 | Uttar Pradesh     | RPO Lucknow         |
|        35 | Uttarakhand       | RPO Dehradun        |
|        36 | West Bengal       | RPO Kolkata         |

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