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Mobile Van Passport Seva that was launched successful June 2025 has served much than 900 persons surviving successful distant areas nether the jurisdiction of Madurai Regional Passport Office.
Talking to reporters present connected Tuesday, Regional Passport Officer, B. Vasanthan, said that 2 passport seva kendras successful Madurai and Tirunelveli and 8 station bureau passport seva kendras were functioning successful the 10 districts nether Madurai RPO.
“People request not question for much than 60 km to scope the nearest PSK oregon PoPSK. However, successful bid to instrumentality the services of RPO to the remotest parts, we introduced the mobile van passport seva past twelvemonth to spare passport applicants from travelling agelong region and spending connected their travel,” Mr. Vasanthan said.
The RPO said that fishermen successful Dhanushkodi were blessed arsenic they could taxable their passport exertion and different documents without having to instrumentality a time disconnected from their regular work.
“The fishermen were capable to taxable the documents aft returning from the oversea successful the afternoon. Otherwise, they would person to suffer their day’s wage, walk clip and wealth connected question to the PoPSK,” helium added.
The mobile van passport seva collects applications and different documents and process them. With 2 counters available, the portion could cod 40 to 50 applications successful a day.
The RPO has scheduled the mobile van passport seva astatine 12 places successful confederate districts successful the archetypal 3 months of 2026.
“We nonstop the mobile van passport seva to colleges to assistance the students use for passports arsenic galore of them spell overseas for concern exposures. However, this work is disposable lone based connected petition from the assemblage administration,” helium added.
The RPO has process 2.97 passport applications successful 2025. This included 5,521 passports issued to assemblage students.
“We person started to contented e-passport, which is overmuch secured with encrypted information which cannot beryllium altered. We person issued 1.77 lakh e-passport truthful far,” helium added.
Madurai RPO clears each applications and issues passports wrong 11 days. “In lawsuit of tatkal, the passports are issued wrong 2 days,” helium added.
Stating that incomplete information oregon mismatch successful information fixed successful applications and with that of submitted documents delayed the contented of passport, Mr. Vasanthan said that providing the nexus of documents stored successful digilocker volition facilitate expeditious process of passport applications.
In that case, the applicants request not bring archetypal documents for verification.
All grievances and complaints pertaining to passport applications received done e-mails, posts oregon telephone calls are redressed wrong 2 to 3 days. A full of 17,242 grievances were redressed during passport Adalat held successful 2025, helium added.
Deputy Regional Passport Officer S. Alagesan was present.
