Lok Sabha Question No. 116 (STARRED), answered on 2024-02-09
Subject: Passport Service Centres
Ministry: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: Janardan Singh Sigriwal, Dushyant Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO-116

ANSWERED ON 09.02.2024

## PASSPORT SERVICE CENTRES

*116. SHRI JANARDAN SINGH SIGRIWAL

SHRI DUSHYANT SINGH

Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of Passport Service Centres functioning in the country, State-wise including Bihar and Rajasthan;
- (b) the number of applications for passports pending in these states along with the corrective measures taken by the Government to clear the same in time bound manner;

(c)whether   the   Government   has   any   proposal   to   open   more Passport Service Centres in these states and if so, the details thereof along with funds sanctioned;

- (d)   whether   the   Government   has   any   proposal   for   faster   Passport service to students; and

(e) if so, the details thereof; and

## ANSWER THE EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER [DR. SUBRAHMANYAM JAISHANKAR]

(a) to (e) A statement is laid in the table of the House.

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Statement referred  to  in  reply  to parts (a) to (e) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. *116 for reply on 09.02.2024 regarding passport service centres.

(a to e): There are currently 527 Passport Service Centres functioning in the country including  93 Passport  Seva  Kendras (PSKs) - attached  as Annexure - I and 434 Post Office Passport Seva Kendras (POPSKs) attached as Annexure-II, under 37 Regional Passport Offices (RPOs) including Bihar and Rajasthan.

The number of applications that are in various stages of processing, including Bihar and Rajasthan are attached as Annexure-III. To clear the   huge   volume   of   passport   applications   at   various   stages   of processing, government augmented officials to deal with the increasing demand. Officials have also been working on Saturdays to process these applications.

Ministry in association with Department of Posts (DoP) had decided in January 2017 to open Seva kendras at the Head Post Offices (HPO)/ Post   Offices   (PO)   in   the   country   called   Post   Office   Passport   Seva Kendra (POPSK) in each Lok Sabha Constituency(LSC) where there is no PSK or a POPSK. Presently, 37 LSCs in Bihar have PSK/POPSK. All the LSCs in Rajasthan have a PSKs/POPSKs.

Expenditure on Passport Service Centres (kendras) is met from the budgetary grant of the MEA and no separate funds are allocated for it.

For faster passport services, students can apply for passports under the Tatkaal category on payment of requisite fees and fulfilling the required documents.

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## List of Passport Seva Kendras RPO-wise

| S.NO   | RPO Name                   | S. No. of PSKs   | Name of PSK                                                                                      |
|--------|----------------------------|------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        | RPO Ahmedabad              | 1                | PSK Mithakali Ahmedabad                                                                          |
| 1      |                            | 2 3              | PSK Rajkot PSK Vadodara                                                                          |
| 2      | RPO Amritsar RPO Bareilly  | 4 5 6            | PSK Vijay Cross Road Ahmedabad PSK Amritsar                                                      |
| 3 4    | RPO Bengaluru              | 7 8 9 10         | PSK Bareilly PSK Bengaluru, Lalbagh PSK Bengaluru, Sai Arcade PSK Hubballi-Dharwad PSK Mangaluru |
| 5      | RPO Bhopal RPO Bhubaneswar | 11 12            | PSK Kalaburagi PSK Bhopal PSK Indore                                                             |
| 6      | RPO Chandigarh             | 13               |                                                                                                  |
| 7      |                            | 14 15            | PSK Bhubaneswar PSK Ambala                                                                       |
|        |                            | 16 17            | PSK Chandigarh PSK Ludhiana                                                                      |
| 8      | RPO Chennai                | 18 19 20 21      | PSK Aminjikarai PSK Saligramam PSK Tambaram PSK Puducherry                                       |
|        | RPO Cochin                 | 22 23            | PSK Alappuzha PSK Aluva                                                                          |
| 9      |                            | 24               | PSK Kottayam                                                                                     |
|        |                            | 25               |                                                                                                  |
|        |                            |                  | PSK Thrissur                                                                                     |

## Annexure-I

|    |                | 26    | PSK Tripunithura, Cochin   |
|----|----------------|-------|----------------------------|
| 10 | RPO Coimbatore | 27    | PSK Coimbatore             |
| 11 | RPO Dehradun   | 28    | PSK Dehradun               |
|    |                | 29    | PSK R.K Puram              |
| 12 | RPO Delhi      | 30    | PSK Gurgaon                |
|    |                | 31    | PSK Herald House - ITO     |
|    |                | 32    | PSK Shalimar Place         |
| 13 | RPO Ghaziabad  | 33    | PSK Ghaziabad              |
|    |                | 34    | PSK Guwahati               |
|    |                | 35    | PSK Aizawl                 |
|    |                | 36    | PSK Dimapur                |
| 14 | RPO Guwahati   | 37    | PSK Imphal                 |
|    |                | 38    | PSK Itanagar               |
|    |                | 39    | PSK Shillong               |
|    |                | 40    | PSK Ameerpet               |
| 15 | RPO Hyderabad  | 41 42 | PSK Begumpet PSK Nizamabad |
|    |                |       | PSK Toli Chowki            |
|    |                | 43 44 | PSK Karimnagar             |
|    |                | 45    | PSK Jaipur                 |
| 16 | RPO Jaipur     | 46    | PSK Jodhpur                |
|    |                | 47    | PSK Sikar                  |
|    |                | 48    | PSK Hoshiarpur             |
| 17 | RPO Jalandhar  | 49    | PSK Jalandhar-1            |
|    |                | 50    | PSK Jalandhar-2            |
| 18 | RPO Jammu      | 51    | PSK Jammu                  |
| 19 | RPO Kolkata    | 52    | PSK Berhampore             |
|    |                | 53    | PSK Kolkata                |
|    |                | 54    | PSK Agartala               |

|    |               | 55    | PSK Gangtok              |
|----|---------------|-------|--------------------------|
| 20 | RPO, Kota     | 56 57 | PSK Siliguri PSK Udaipur |
|    |               | 58    | PSK Kannur               |
|    |               | 59    | PSK Kozhikode            |
| 21 | RPO Kozhikode | 60    | PSK Malappuram II        |
|    |               | 61    | PSK Payyanur, Kannur     |
|    |               | 62    | PSK Vadakara, Kozhikode  |
|    |               | 63    | PSK Gorakhpur            |
| 22 | RPO Lucknow   | 64    | PSK Kanpur               |
|    |               | 65    | PSK Lucknow              |
|    |               | 66    | PSK Varanasi             |
| 23 | RPO Madurai   | 67    | PSK Madurai              |
|    |               | 68    | PSK Tirunelveli City     |
|    |               | 69    | PSK Andheri              |
|    |               | 70    | PSK Lower Parel          |
| 24 | RPO Mumbai    | 71    | PSK Malad                |
|    |               | 72    | PSK Nashik II            |
|    |               | 73    | PSK Thane II             |
| 25 | RPO Nagpur    | 74    | PSK Nagpur               |
| 26 | RPO Panaji    | 75    | PSK Panaji               |
| 27 | RPO Patna     | 76    | PSK Darbhanga            |
|    |               | 77    | PSK Patna                |
| 28 | RPO Pune      | 78    | PSK Pune                 |
|    |               | 79    | PSK Solapur              |
| 29 | RPO Raipur    | 80    | PSK Raipur               |
| 30 | RPO Ranchi    | 81    | PSK Ranchi               |
| 31 | RPO Shimla    | 82    | PSK Shimla               |
| 32 | RPO Srinagar  | 83    | PSK Srinagar             |

|   33 | RPO Surat           |   84 | PSK Surat                    |
|------|---------------------|------|------------------------------|
|   34 | RPO Tiruchirappalli |   85 | PSK Thanjavur                |
|   34 | RPO Tiruchirappalli |   86 | PSK Tiruchirappalli          |
|   35 | RPO Trivandrum      |   87 | PSK Kollam                   |
|   35 | RPO Trivandrum      |   89 | PSK Vazhuthacaud, Trivandrum |
|   36 | RPO Vijayawada      |   90 | PSK Tirupathi II             |
|   36 | RPO Vijayawada      |   91 | PSK Vijaywada II             |
|   37 | RPO Visakhapatnam   |   92 | PSK Visakhapatnam            |
|   37 |                     |   93 | PSK Bhimavaram               |

## Annexure-II

## List of functional Post Office Passport Seva Kendras as on date

|   S. No. | Locations of POPSK   | State/UT                 | Passport Office   |
|----------|----------------------|--------------------------|-------------------|
|        1 | Port Blair           | Andaman & Nicobar Island | Kolkata           |
|        2 | Anantapur            | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|        3 | Bapatla              | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|        4 | Chittoor             | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|        5 | Gudivada             | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|        6 | Guntur               | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|        7 | Hindupur             | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|        8 | Kadapa               | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|        9 | Kodur                | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|       10 | Kurnool              | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|       11 | Nandyal              | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|       12 | Narasaraopet         | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|       13 | Nellore              | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|       14 | Ongole               | Andhra Pradesh           | Vijayawada        |
|       15 | Amalapuram           | Andhra Pradesh           | Visakhapatnam     |
|       16 | Eluru                | Andhra Pradesh           | Visakhapatnam     |
|       17 | Kakinada             | Andhra Pradesh           | Visakhapatnam     |
|       18 | Rajamundry           | Andhra Pradesh           | Visakhapatnam     |
|       19 | Srikakulam           | Andhra Pradesh           | Visakhapatnam     |
|       20 | Vizianagaram         | Andhra Pradesh           | Visakhapatnam     |
|       21 | Yelamanchili         | Andhra Pradesh           | Visakhapatnam     |
|       22 | Changlang            | Arunachal Pradesh        | Guwahati          |

| 23           | Khonsa        | Arunachal Pradesh   | Guwahati   |
|--------------|---------------|---------------------|------------|
| 24           | Barpeta       | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 25           | Dhubri        | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 26           | Dibrugarh     | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 27           | Goalpara      | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 28           | Golaghat      | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 29           | Jorhat        | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 30           | Karbi Anglong | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 31 Karimganj | Assam         |                     | Guwahati   |
| 32           | Kokrajhar     | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 33           | Mangaldoi     | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 34           | Nagaon        | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 35 North     | Lakhimpur     | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 36           | Silchar       | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 37           | Tezpur        | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 38           | Tinsukia      | Assam               | Guwahati   |
| 39           | Arrah         | Bihar               | Patna      |
| 40           | Aurangabad    | Bihar               | Patna      |
| 41           | Banka         | Bihar               | Patna      |
| 42           | Begusarai     | Bihar               | Patna      |
| 43           | Bettiah       | Bihar               | Patna      |
| 44           | Bhagalpur     | Bihar               | Patna      |
| 45           | Buxar         | Bihar               | Patna      |
| 46           | Chapra        | Bihar               | Patna      |
| 47           | Dalmianagar   | Bihar               | Patna      |
| 48           | Ekma          | Bihar               | Patna      |
| 49           | Dalsinghsarai | Bihar               | Patna      |
| 50           | Forbesganj    | Bihar               | Patna      |

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| 51            | Gaya           | Bihar        | Patna       |
|---------------|----------------|--------------|-------------|
| 52            | Gopalganj      | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 53            | Hajipur        | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 54            | Jahanabad      | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 55            | Jamui          | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 56            | Katihar        | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 57            | Khagaria       | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 58 Kishanganj | Bihar          |              | Patna       |
| 59            | Madhubani      | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 60            | Maner          | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 61            | Motihari       | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 62            | Munger         | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 63            | Muzaffarpur    | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 64 65         | Nalanda Nawada | Bihar Bihar  | Patna Patna |
| 66            | Purnia         | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 67            | Saharsa        | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 68            | Samastipur     | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 69            | Sasaram        | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 70            | Sheohar        | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 71            | Sitamarhi      | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 72            | Siwan          | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 73            | Supaul         | Bihar        | Patna       |
| 74            | Bilaspur       | Chhattisgarh | Raipur      |
| 75            | Durg           | Chhattisgarh | Raipur      |
| 76            | Janjgir-Champa | Chhattisgarh | Raipur      |
| 77            | Korba          | Chhattisgarh | Raipur      |
| 78            | Raigarh        | Chhattisgarh | Raipur      |
| 79            | Rajnandgaon    | Chhattisgarh | Raipur      |

| 80       | Surguja            | Chhattisgarh                         | Raipur    |
|----------|--------------------|--------------------------------------|-----------|
| 81       | Daman              | Dadar & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu | Mumbai    |
| 82       | Silvasa Haveli and | Dadar & Nagar Daman & Diu            | Mumbai    |
| 83       | Janak Puri         | Delhi                                | Delhi     |
| 84       | Mehrauli           | Delhi                                | Delhi     |
| 85 Nehru | Place              | Delhi                                | Delhi     |
| 86       | Patparganj         | Delhi                                | Delhi     |
| 87       | Yamuna Vihar       | Delhi                                | Delhi     |
| 88       | Margao             | Goa                                  | Panaji    |
| 89       | Amreli             | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 90       | Anand              | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 91       | Bharuch            | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 92       | Bhavnagar          | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 93       | Bhuj               | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 94       | Chhota Udaipur     | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 95       | Dahod              | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 96       | Gandhinagar        | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 97       | Godhra             | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 98       | Himmatnagar        | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 99       | Jamnagar           | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 100      | Junagadh           | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 101      | Mehsana            | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 102      | Nadiad             | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 103      | Palanpur           | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 104      | Patan              | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |
| 105      | Porbandar          | Gujarat                              | Ahmedabad |

| 106             | Surendranagar   | Gujarat          | Ahmedabad   |
|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|-------------|
| 107             | Veraval         | Gujarat          | Ahmedabad   |
| 108             | Bardoli         | Gujarat          | Surat       |
| 109             | Navsari         | Gujarat          | Surat       |
| 110             | Rajpipla        | Gujarat          | Surat       |
| 111             | Valsad          | Gujarat          | Surat       |
| 112 Bhiwani     |                 | Haryana          | Chandigarh  |
| 113 Hisar       |                 | Haryana          | Chandigarh  |
| 114             | Kaithal         | Haryana          | Chandigarh  |
| 115 Karnal      |                 | Haryana          | Chandigarh  |
| 116             | Sirsa           | Haryana          | Chandigarh  |
| 117 Yamunanagar | Haryana         |                  | Chandigarh  |
| 118             | Panipat         | Haryana          | Chandigarh  |
| 119             | Faridabad       | Haryana          | Delhi       |
| 120 Narnaul     |                 | Haryana          | Delhi       |
| 121 Rohtak      |                 | Haryana          | Delhi       |
| 122             | Sonipat         | Haryana          | Delhi       |
| 123 Hamirpur    | Himachal        | Pradesh          | Shimla      |
| 124             | Kangra          | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla      |
| 125             | Kullu           | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla      |
| 126             | Mandi           | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla      |
| 127             | Palampur        | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla      |
| 128             | Una             | Himachal Pradesh | Shimla      |
| 129             | Kathua          | Jammu & Kashmir  | Jammu       |
| 130             | Rajouri         | Jammu & Kashmir  | Jammu       |
| 131             | Udhampur Jammu  | & Kashmir        | Jammu       |
| 132             | Anantnag        | Jammu & Kashmir  | Srinagar    |
| 133             | Baramulla       | Jammu & Kashmir  | Srinagar    |
| 134             | Bokaro          | Jharkhand        | Ranchi      |

|   135 | Chaibasa       | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|-------|----------------|-------------|-----------|
|   136 | Deoghar        | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   137 | Dhanbad        | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   138 | Dumka          | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   139 | Giridih        | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   140 | Gumla          | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   141 | Hazaribagh     | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   142 | Jamshedpur     | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   143 | Jhumri Tilaiya | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   144 | Khunti         | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   145 | Medininagar    | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   146 | Sahibganj      | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   147 | Simaria        | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   148 | Godda          | Jharkhand   | Ranchi    |
|   149 | Ankola         | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   150 | Bagalkot       | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   151 | Belagavi       | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   152 | Ballari        | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   153 | Bidar          | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   154 | Chamarajanagar | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   155 | Channapatna    | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   156 | Chikkaballapur | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   157 | Chikkodi       | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   158 | Chitradurga    | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   159 | Davangere      | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   160 | Gadag          | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   161 | Hassan         | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   162 | Jalahalli      | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |
|   163 | Koppal         | Karnataka   | Bengaluru |

| 164                | Maddur       | Karnataka      | Bengaluru          |
|--------------------|--------------|----------------|--------------------|
| 165                | Mysuru       | Karnataka      | Bengaluru          |
| 166                | Raichur      | Karnataka      | Bengaluru          |
| 167                | Robertsonpet | Karnataka      | Bengaluru          |
| 168                | Shivamogga   | Karnataka      | Bengaluru          |
| 169                | Tumakuru     | Karnataka      | Bengaluru          |
| 170                | Udupi        | Karnataka      | Bengaluru          |
| 171                | Vijayapura   | Karnataka      | Bengaluru          |
| 172                | Chengannur   | Kerala         | Cochin             |
| 173                | Kattappana   | Kerala         | Cochin             |
| 174 Nenmara        |              | Kerala         | Cochin             |
| 175                | Palakkad     | Kerala         | Cochin             |
| 176                | Kasargod     | Kerala         | Kozhikode          |
| 177                | Attingal     | Kerala         | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 178 Pathanamthitta |              | Kerala         | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 179                | Leh          | Ladakh         | Srinagar           |
| 180                | Kavaratti    | Lakshadweep    | Cochin             |
| 181                | Balaghat     | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |
| 182                | Betul        | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |
| 183                | Chhatarpur   | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |
| 184                | Chhindwara   | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |
| 185                | Damoh        | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |
| 186                | Dewas        | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |
| 187                | Dhar         | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |
| 188                | Gwalior      | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |
| 189                | Hoshangabad  | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |
| 190                | Jabalpur     | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |
| 191                | Ratlam       | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |
| 192                | Rewa         | Madhya Pradesh | Bhopal             |

|   193 | Sagar      | Madhya Pradesh   | Bhopal   |
|-------|------------|------------------|----------|
|   194 | Satna      | Madhya Pradesh   | Bhopal   |
|   195 | Seoni      | Madhya Pradesh   | Bhopal   |
|   196 | Tikamgarh  | Madhya Pradesh   | Bhopal   |
|   197 | Ujjain     | Madhya Pradesh   | Bhopal   |
|   198 | Vidisha    | Madhya Pradesh   | Bhopal   |
|   199 | Guna       | Madhya Pradesh   | Bhopal   |
|   200 | Alibaug    | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   201 | Aurangabad | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   202 | Bhiwandi   | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   203 | Bhusawal   | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   204 | Dhule      | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   205 | Dombivli   | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   206 | Jalgaon    | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   207 | Rajapur    | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   208 | Santacruz  | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   209 | Sion       | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   210 | Vashi      | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   211 | Vasai      | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   212 | Vikroli    | Maharashtra      | Mumbai   |
|   213 | Akola      | Maharashtra      | Nagpur   |
|   214 | Amravati   | Maharashtra      | Nagpur   |
|   215 | Bhandara   | Maharashtra      | Nagpur   |
|   216 | Buldhana   | Maharashtra      | Nagpur   |
|   217 | Chandrapur | Maharashtra      | Nagpur   |
|   218 | Gadchiroli | Maharashtra      | Nagpur   |
|   219 | Hingoli    | Maharashtra      | Nagpur   |
|   220 | Katoal     | Maharashtra      | Nagpur   |
|   221 | Wardha     | Maharashtra      | Nagpur   |

|   222 | Yavatmal         | Maharashtra   | Nagpur      |
|-------|------------------|---------------|-------------|
|   223 | Ahmednagar       | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   224 | Baramati         | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   225 | Beed             | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   226 | Ichalkaranji     | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   227 | Jalna            | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   228 | Kolhapur         | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   229 | Latur            | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   230 | Madha            | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   231 | Nanded           | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   232 | Osmanabad        | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   233 | Pandharpur       | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   234 | Parbhani         | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   235 | Pimpri Chinchwad | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   236 | Sangli           | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   237 | Satara           | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   238 | Shirur           | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   239 | Srirampur        | Maharashtra   | Pune        |
|   240 | Kakching         | Manipur       | Guwahati    |
|   241 | Tura             | Meghalaya     | Guwahati    |
|   242 | Aska             | Odisha        | Bhubaneswar |
|   243 | Balasore         | Odisha        | Bhubaneswar |
|   244 | Bargarh          | Odisha        | Bhubaneswar |
|   245 | Baripada         | Odisha        | Bhubaneswar |
|   246 | Berhampur        | Odisha        | Bhubaneswar |
|   247 | Bhadrak          | Odisha        | Bhubaneswar |
|   248 | Bhawanipatna     | Odisha        | Bhubaneswar |
|   249 | Bolangir         | Odisha        | Bhubaneswar |
|   250 | Cuttack          | Odisha        | Bhubaneswar |

|   251 | Dhenkanal      | Odisha     | Bhubaneswar    |
|-------|----------------|------------|----------------|
|   252 | Jagatsinghpur  | Odisha     | Bhubaneswar    |
|   253 | Jajpur         | Odisha     | Bhubaneswar    |
|   254 | Kendrapara     | Odisha     | Bhubaneswar    |
|   255 | Keonjhar       | Odisha     | Bhubaneswar    |
|   256 | Koraput        | Odisha     | Bhubaneswar    |
|   257 | Nabarangpur    | Odisha     | Bhubaneswar    |
|   258 | Phulbani       | Odisha     | Bhubaneswar    |
|   259 | Puri           | Odisha     | Bhubaneswar    |
|   260 | Rourkela       | Odisha     | Bhubaneswar    |
|   261 | Sambalpur      | Odisha     | Bhubaneswar    |
|   262 | Karaikal       | Puducherry | Tiruchirapalli |
|   263 | Ferozapur      | Punjab     | Amritsar       |
|   264 | Bassi Pathanan | Punjab     | Chandigarh     |
|   265 | Bathinda       | Punjab     | Chandigarh     |
|   266 | Malerkotla     | Punjab     | Chandigarh     |
|   267 | Patiala        | Punjab     | Chandigarh     |
|   268 | Ropar          | Punjab     | Chandigarh     |
|   269 | Moga           | Punjab     | Jalandhar      |
|   270 | Pathankot      | Punjab     | Jalandhar      |
|   271 | Phagwara       | Punjab     | Jalandhar      |
|   272 | Ajmer          | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|   273 | Alwar          | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|   274 | Banswara       | Rajasthan  | Kota           |
|   275 | Barmer         | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|   276 | Bharatpur      | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|   277 | Bhilwara       | Rajasthan  | Kota           |
|   278 | Bikaner        | Rajasthan  | Jaipur         |
|   279 | Chittorgarh    | Rajasthan  | Kota           |

|   280 | Churu          | Rajasthan   | Jaipur   |
|-------|----------------|-------------|----------|
|   281 | Dausa          | Rajasthan   | Jaipur   |
|   282 | Hanumangarh    | Rajasthan   | Jaipur   |
|   283 | Jaisalmer      | Rajasthan   | Jaipur   |
|   284 | Jhalawar       | Rajasthan   | Kota     |
|   285 | Jhunjhunu      | Rajasthan   | Jaipur   |
|   286 | Kankroli       | Rajasthan   | Kota     |
|   287 | Dholpur        | Rajasthan   | Jaipur   |
|   288 | Kota           | Rajasthan   | Kota     |
|   289 | Kotputli       | Rajasthan   | Jaipur   |
|   290 | Nagaur         | Rajasthan   | Jaipur   |
|   291 | Pali           | Rajasthan   | Jaipur   |
|   292 | Pratapgarh     | Rajasthan   | Kota     |
|   293 | Sawai Madhopur | Rajasthan   | Kota     |
|   294 | Sirohi         | Rajasthan   | Jaipur   |
|   295 | Sriganganagar  | Rajasthan   | Jaipur   |
|   296 | Arani          | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   297 | Chennai GPO    | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   298 | Chidambaram    | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   299 | Cuddalore      | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   300 | Dharmapuri     | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   301 | Kallakurichi   | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   302 | Kancheepuram   | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   303 | Krishnagiri    | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   304 | Ranipet        | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   305 | Tiruvallur     | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   306 | Tiruvannamalai | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   307 | Vellore        | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |
|   308 | Villupuram     | Tamil Nadu  | Chennai  |

|   309 | Coonoor           | Tamil Nadu   | Coimbatore      |
|-------|-------------------|--------------|-----------------|
|   310 | Erode             | Tamil Nadu   | Coimbatore      |
|   311 | Rasipuram         | Tamil Nadu   | Coimbatore      |
|   312 | Salem             | Tamil Nadu   | Coimbatore      |
|   313 | Bodineyaknur      | Tamil Nadu   | Madurai         |
|   314 | Devakottai        | Tamil Nadu   | Madurai         |
|   315 | Kodai Road        | Tamil Nadu   | Madurai         |
|   316 | Nagercoil         | Tamil Nadu   | Madurai         |
|   317 | Rajapalayam       | Tamil Nadu   | Madurai         |
|   318 | Ramanathapuram    | Tamil Nadu   | Madurai         |
|   319 | Thoothukkudi      | Tamil Nadu   | Madurai         |
|   320 | Virudhunagar      | Tamil Nadu   | Madurai         |
|   321 | Karur             | Tamil Nadu   | Tiruchirappalli |
|   322 | Perambalur        | Tamil Nadu   | Tiruchirapalli  |
|   323 | Sirkali           | Tamil Nadu   | Tiruchirappalli |
|   324 | Thiruthuraipoondi | Tamil Nadu   | Tiruchirappalli |
|   325 | Adilabad          | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   326 | Bhongir           | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   327 | Kamareddy         | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   328 | Khammam           | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   329 | Mahabubabad       | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   330 | Mancherial        | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   331 | Medak             | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   332 | Medchal           | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   333 | Mahaboobnagar     | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   334 | Nalgonda          | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   335 | Siddipet          | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   336 | Vikarabad         | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |
|   337 | Wanaparthy        | Telangana    | Hyderabad       |

|   338 | Warangal              | Telangana     | Hyderabad   |
|-------|-----------------------|---------------|-------------|
|   339 | Dhramanagar           | Tripura       | Kolkata     |
|   340 | Amroha                | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly    |
|   341 | Badaun                | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly    |
|   342 | Bijnaur               | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly    |
|   343 | Moradabad             | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly    |
|   344 | Pilibhit              | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly    |
|   345 | Rampur                | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly    |
|   346 | Shahjahanpur          | Uttar Pradesh | Bareilly    |
|   347 | Achnera               | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|   348 | Agra                  | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|   349 | Aligarh               | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|   350 | Baghpat               | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|   351 | Bulandshahr           | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|   352 | Hathras               | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|   353 | Meerut                | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|   354 | Muzaffarnagar         | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|   355 | Noida                 | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|   356 | Saharanpur            | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|   357 | Vrindavan             | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad   |
|   358 | Prayagraj (Allahabad) | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|   359 | Ambedkar Nagar        | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|   360 | Amethi                | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|   361 | Ayodhya               | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|   362 | Azamgarh              | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|   363 | Bahraich              | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|   364 | Ballia                | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |
|   365 | Balrampur             | Uttar Pradesh | Lucknow     |

|   366 | Banda           | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|-------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------|
|   367 | Bhadohi         | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   368 | Chunar          | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   369 | Deoria          | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   370 | Farrukhabad     | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   371 | Fatehpur        | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   372 | Ghazipur        | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   373 | Gonda           | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   374 | Mau             | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   375 | Hamirpur        | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   376 | Hardoi          | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   377 | Jaunpur         | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   378 | Jhansi          | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   379 | Lakhimpur Kheri | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   380 | Maharajganj     | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   381 | Misrikh         | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   382 | Pratapgarh      | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   383 | Raebareli       | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   384 | Siddharth Nagar | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   385 | Sitapur         | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   386 | Sultanpur       | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   387 | Unnao           | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   388 | Etawah          | Uttar Pradesh   | Lucknow   |
|   389 | Almora          | Uttarakhand     | Dehradun  |
|   390 | Kathgodam       | Uttarakhand     | Dehradun  |
|   391 | Nainital        | Uttarakhand     | Dehradun  |
|   392 | Roorkee         | Uttarakhand     | Dehradun  |
|   393 | Rudrapur        | Uttarakhand     | Dehradun  |
|   394 | Srinagar        | Uttarakhand     | Dehradun  |

|   395 | Alipurduar              | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|-------|-------------------------|---------------|-----------|
|   396 | Amta                    | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   397 | Arambagh                | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   398 | Asansol                 | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   399 | Ashoknagar              | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   400 | Balurghat               | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   401 | Bangaon                 | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   402 | Bankura                 | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   403 | Bardhaman               | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   404 | Barrackpore             | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   405 | Basirhat                | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   406 | Beadon Street           | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   407 | Bishnupur               | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   408 | Bolpur                  | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   409 | Canning Town Ferry Ghat | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   410 | Chinsurah               | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   411 | Coochbehar              | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   412 | Darjeeling              | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   413 | Diamond Harbour         | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   414 | Dum Dum                 | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   415 | Ghatal                  | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   416 | Howrah                  | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   417 | Jadavpur                | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   418 | Jalpaiguri              | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   419 | Jhargram                | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   420 | Jiyaganj                | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   421 | Kakdweep                | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   422 | Contai                  | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |

|   423 | Katwa         | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|-------|---------------|---------------|-----------|
|   424 | Kharagpur     | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   425 | Krishnanagar  | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   426 | Makdumpur     | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   427 | Purulia       | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   428 | Raghunathganj | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   429 | Raiganj       | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   430 | Rampurhat     | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   431 | Ranaghat      | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   432 | Samsi         | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   433 | Serampore     | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |
|   434 | Tamluk        | West Bengal   | Kolkata   |

Annexure-III Applications that are In various stages of processing as on 31 Jan 2024

| S.No.             | RPO Name         | Total Count   |
|-------------------|------------------|---------------|
| 1                 | RPO Ahmedabad    | 14,831        |
| 2                 | RPO Amritsar     | 3,878         |
| 3                 | RPO Bareilly     | 9,175         |
| 4                 | RPO Bengaluru    | 5,328         |
| 5                 | RPO Bhopal       | 409           |
| 6                 | RPO Bhubaneswar  | 1,815         |
| 7                 | RPO Chandigarh   | 15,092        |
| 8 RPO             | Chennai          | 1,007         |
| 9                 | RPO Cochin       | 621           |
| 10 RPO Coimbatore | 2,580            |               |
| 11 RPO            | Dehradun         | 2,162         |
| 12                | RPO Delhi        | 8,422         |
| 13 RPO            | Ghaziabad 16,561 |               |
| 14                | RPO Goa          | 25            |
| 15                | RPO Guwahati     | 11            |
| 16 RPO Hyderabad  | 4,620            |               |
| 17                | RPO Jaipur       | 15,103        |
| 18 RPO            | Jalandhar        | 3,219         |
| 19                | RPO Jammu        | 1,132         |
| 20                | RPO Kolkata      | 1,454         |
| 21                | RPO Kota         | 385           |
| 22 RPO            | Kozhikode        | 138           |
| 23                | RPO Lucknow      | 4,177         |
| 24                | RPO Madurai      | 1,498         |
| 25                | RPO Mumbai       | 7,329         |
| 26                | RPO Nagpur       | 248           |

| 27   | RPO Patna           | 1,922    |
|------|---------------------|----------|
| 28   | RPO Pune            | 963      |
| 29   | RPO Raipur          | 1,755    |
| 30   | RPO Ranchi          | 1,978    |
| 31   | RPO Shimla          | 313      |
| 32   | RPO Srinagar        | 3,177    |
| 33   | RPO Surat           | 2,701    |
| 34   | RPO Tiruchirappalli | 1,263    |
| 35   | RPO Trivandrum      | 6,575    |
| 36   | RPO Vijayawada      | 648      |
| 37   | RPO Visakhapatnam   | 1,230    |
|      | Total               | 1,43,745 |

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