Lok Sabha Question No. 330 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-07-22
Subject: Regional Passport Offices
Ministry: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Asked by: HARIOM SINGH RATHORE, ARJUN RAM  MEGHWAL, RAMACHANDRAN MULLAPPALLY

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.330

TO BE ANSWERED ON 22.07.2015

REGIONAL PASSPORT OFFICES

†330.		SHRI HARIOM SINGH RATHORE:

SHRI ARJUN MEGHWAL:

SHRI MULLAPPALLY RAMACHANDRAN:

Will the Minister of EXTERNAL AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a)  	the location-wise Regional Passport Offices in various States and Union Territories of India;

(b)	whether the Government has any plan to extend Regional Passport Offices at each Divisional Headquarters/or to establish new passport service centres; and

(c)	if so, the time by which it is likely to be implemented along with the details thereof?

#### 1 ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

[GEN. (DR) V. K. SINGH (RETD)]

1. A list indicating location–wise 37 Regional Passport Offices and 77 Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) under them, in various States and Union Territories of India, is enclosed (Annexure –I).

(b) & (c)	There is no plan at present to set up any Passport Office at Divisional Headquarters. However, a list of 18 more functional/upcoming PSKs in the country along with their status, is enclosed (Annexure –II).

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**Annexure-I**

**STATE-WISE LIST OF PASSPORT OFFICES and PASSPORT SEVA KENDRAS (PSKs)**

| **S. No.**   | **State/UT**      | **Location of Passport Office**                          | **No. of PSKs**   | **Location of PSKs**                                                                                                                                                |
|--------------|-------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|-------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1.           | Andhra Pradesh    | Visakhapatnam                                            | 3                 | Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Tirupati.                                                                                                                                |
| 2.           | Andaman & Nicobar | The office of Chief Secretary#  Port Blair               | -                 | -                                                                                                                                                                   |
| 3.           | Assam*            | Guwahati*                                                | 1                 | Guwahati                                                                                                                                                            |
| 4.           | Bihar             | Patna                                                    | 1                 | Patna                                                                                                                                                               |
| 5.           | Chandigarh UT**   | Chandigarh                                               | 1                 | Chandigarh                                                                                                                                                          |
| 6.           | Chhattisgarh      | Raipur                                                   | 1                 | Raipur                                                                                                                                                              |
| 7.           | Delhi NCT***      | Delhi                                                    | 3                 | Herald House, Shalimar Place,  Bhikaji Cama Place                                                                                                                   |
| 8.           | Goa               | Panaji                                                   | 1                 | Panaji                                                                                                                                                              |
| 9.           | Gujarat           | Ahmedabad, Surat.                                        | 5                 | Ahmedabad I& II, Vadodara,  Rajkot, Surat.                                                                                                                      |
| 10.          | Haryana           | --                                                       | 2                 | Ambala,  Gurgaon.                                                                                                                                                   |
| 11.          | Himachal Pradesh  | Shimla                                                   | 1                 | Shimla                                                                                                                                                              |
| 12.          | Jammu & Kashmir   | Jammu,  Srinagar                                         | 2                 | Jammu, Srinagar                                                                                                                                                     |
| 13.          | Jharkhand         | Ranchi                                                   | 1                 | Ranchi                                                                                                                                                              |
| 14.          | Karnataka         | Bangalore                                                | 4                 | Bangalore I & II, Hubli,  Mangalore.                                                                                                                                |
| 15.          | Kerala            | Thiruvanantha-  puram,  Cochin,  Kozhikode,  Malappuram. | 13                | Thiruvananthapuram,Thiruvananthapuram (Rural), Kollam, Cochin, Ernakulam Rural, Alapuzha, Kottayam, Malappuram, Thrissur,  Kozhikode I & II, Kannur I & II. |
| 16.          | Madhya Pradesh    | Bhopal                                                   | 1                 | Bhopal                                                                                                                                                              |
| 17.          | Maharashtra       | Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Thane.                             | 7                 | Mumbai I, II & III,  Pune, Nagpur,  Thane, Nashik.                                                                                                              |
| 18.          | Odisha            | Bhubaneswar                                              | 1                 | Bhubaneswar                                                                                                                                                         |
| 19.          | Punjab            | Amritsar,  Jalandhar.                                    | 5                 | Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar  I & II, Hoshiarpur.                                                                                                              |
| 20.          | Rajasthan         | Jaipur                                                   | 3                 | Jaipur, Jodhpur, Sikar.                                                                                                                                             |
| 21.          | Tamil Nadu        | Chennai,  Trichy,  Madurai,  Coimbatore.                 | 8                 | Chennai I, II & III,  Trichy, Thanjavur, Madurai,Tirunelveli, Coimbatore.                                                                                       |
| 22.          | Telangana         | Hyderabad                                                | 4                 | Hyderabad I, II & III , Nizamabad                                                                                                                                   |
| 23.          | Uttar Pradesh     | Lucknow, Bareilly, Ghaziabad.                            | 6                 | Lucknow, Varanasi, Kanpur, Gorakhpur,  Bareilly,  Ghaziabad.                                                                                                        |
| 24.          | Uttarakhand       | Dehradun                                                 | 1                 | Dehradun                                                                                                                                                            |
| 25.          | West Bengal@      | Kolkata                                                  | 2                 | Kolkata,  Berhampore.                                                                                                                                               |
| **TOTAL**    |                   | **37**                                                   | **77**            |                                                                                                                                                                     |

*  RPO Guwahati covers  Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya & Nagaland.

**RPO Chandigarh covers parts of Punjab and Haryana

***RPO Delhi covers parts of Haryana

@RPO Kolkata covers Sikkim and Tripura.

# A *cts as Passport Issuing Authority and liases with RPO Kolkata.*

***N.B. : RPO, Mumbai has jurisdiction over Daman, Dadra & Nagar Haveli ; RPO Ahmedabad has jurisdiction over Diu ; RPO Chennai has jurisdiction over Puducherry and RPO Cochin has jurisdiction over Lakshadweep Islands.***

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**Annexure  -II**

**List of upcoming/functional Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs)**

|   **S. No.** | **State / UT**    | **Location of PSK**              | **Under Passport Office**   | **Remarks**          |
|--------------|-------------------|----------------------------------|-----------------------------|----------------------|
|            1 | Mizoram           | Aizawl                           | Guwahati                    | Implemented          |
|            2 | Manipur           | Imphal                           | Guwahati                    | Implemented          |
|            3 | Meghalaya         | Shillong                         | Guwahati                    | Implemented          |
|            4 | Arunachal Pradesh | Itanagar                         | Guwahati                    | Under implementation |
|            5 | Nagaland          | Dimapur                          | Guwahati                    | Under implementation |
|            6 | Tripura           | Agartala                         | Kolkata                     | Under implementation |
|            7 | Sikkim            | Gangtok                          | Kolkata                     | Implemented          |
|            8 | West Bengal       | Siliguri                         | Kolkata                     | Under implementation |
|            9 | West Bengal       | Kharagpur                        | Kolkata                     | To be implemented    |
|           10 | West  Bengal      | Kolkata (MEA Branch Secretariat) | Kolkata                     | To be implemented    |
|           11 | Bihar             | Darbhanga                        | Patna                       | Under implementation |
|           12 | Jammu & Kashmir   | Leh                              | Srinagar                    | Under implementation |
|           13 | Madhya Pradesh    | Indore                           | Bhopal                      | Under implementation |
|           14 | Maharashtra       | Solapur                          | Pune                        | Under implementation |
|           15 | Karnataka         | Kalaburagi                       | Bangalore                   | Implemented          |
|           16 | Andhra Pradesh    | Bhimavaram                       | Visakhapatnam               | Under implementation |
|           17 | Telangana         | Karimnagar                       | Hyderabad                   | Under implementation |
|           18 | Puducherry        | Puducherry                       | Chennai                     | Under implementation |

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