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In a alleviation to residents of Kodagu, the Ministry of External Affairs has approved a three-day passport mela successful the territory from April 8 to April 10, pursuing efforts by Mysuru and Kodagu MP Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar.
The Regional Passport Office Bengaluru volition organise the peculiar campy arsenic per directions from the Ministry. Officials person invited the MP to inaugurate the mela connected April 8.
The determination comes aft Mr. Wadiyar wrote to elder officials of the Ministry successful February, highlighting difficulties faced by Kodagu residents — peculiarly elder citizens — who presently person to question to Mysuru oregon Bengaluru to use for passports.
During a caller sojourn to New Delhi, the MP besides met Ministry Secretary Sripriya Ranganathan and renewed his petition for holding a passport campy successful Kodagu. Acting connected the representation, the Ministry directed the Bengaluru Passport Office to marque indispensable arrangements.
Mr. Wadiyar has urged eligible citizens of Kodagu to marque afloat usage of the opportunity.
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Citing the dependable emergence successful passport applications from Mysuru and Kodagu districts, the MP has besides appealed to the Ministry to upgrade the existing Post Office Passport Seva Kendra, Mysuru into a full-fledged Passport Seva Kendra (PSK) with tatkal facilities.
He pointed retired that Mysuru, 1 of Karnataka’s fastest-growing cities, has witnessed a surge successful outbound question for higher education, IT employment, tourism, and overseas occupation opportunities. However, the existent POPSK functions with constricted capableness and does not connection Tatkal services, forcing applicants to question to Bengaluru to conscionable urgent passport requirements.
