Thursday, 10 March 2011
Passport offices in INDIA
Regional Passport Office, Ahmedabad Started in November 1969. The office offers services to citizen of North Gujarat, Central Gujarat, Saurashtra and Kutch regions.
Passport Office Bangalore, started functioning from 1978 and is in its 30th year of inception. It covers all the districts of Karnataka. In its effort to make the website more user friendly and reach out to normal applicants, Passport Office has launched its Kannada website and English site with new look. Suggestions and advice are most welcome. The office is located at 80 ft Road, 8th Block, Koramangala, Bangalore.
Passport Office, Bhopal was inaugurated on 17nth October, 1978 by Hon. Shri. Atal Behari Vajpayee, External Affairs Minister, Government of India. Since then, this office has been catering to ever increasing demand of passports from the citizens of the state of Madhya Pradesh.
Regional Passport Office, Chandigarh came into existence in the month of September 1969. Since then Regional Passport Office, Chandigarh has been catering to ever increasing demand of passports of three states viz., 14 districts of Punjab State, 12 districts of Haryana State and Union territory of Chandigarh.
Regional Passport Office (RPO) was established in George Town in Chennai in the year 1955. In the year 1966, it was shifted to the Govt. owned premises of Shastri Bhavan located at 26, Haddows Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai.
The Regional Passport Office Cochin commenced functioning as an independent Office in 1975, consequent on the bifurcation of the Kerala region from the jurisdiction of the Regional Passport Office, Chennai. The present jurisdiction of the Regional Passport Office, Cochin comprises of the districts of Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Idukki, Kottayam, Trichur and the Union Teritory of Lakshadweep.
The Regional Passport Office, Delhi was set up in 1954. It was among the first five Passport Offices to be setup. The others were at Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Nagpur. RPO Delhi is located at Trikoot - 3, HUDCO Building, Bhikaji Camaji Place, New Delhi.
Passport Office Ghaziabad started functioning from June 1997. It caters to Eleven districts Viz Agra, Aligarh, Baghpat, Bulandshahar, Gautam Budh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Hathras, Mathura, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur.
Regional Passport Office Guwahati started functioning from June 1979. It caters to six North Eastern States of India viz Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland. The office is located at Basistha Road, Rani Bagan, 3rd Bye Lane, Guwahati.
Regional Passport Office, Hyderabad will provides passport status, and full instructions about passport.
Passport Office Jaipur started functioning from June 1978. It caters to 32 districts. The office is located at J-14, Jhalana Institutional Area, Behind RTO, Jaipur.
Passport Office Jalandhar started functioning from September, 1979. It caters to seven districts viz Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahar, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Kapurthala and Tarn Taran.
The Regional Passport Office, Kolkata was set up in 1954 as one of the first five Regional Passport Offices in the country. It caters to twenty districts of West Bengal viz Howrah, Hooghly,24-paragana (N), 24-paragana (S), Nadia, Birbhum, Burdwan, Bankura, Purulia, Maldah, Murshidabad, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Coochbihar, Dinajpur (N), Dinajpur (S), Sikkim, Tripura, Medinipur (E), Medinipur (W) and 4 districts each of Tripura and Sikkim state.
The Regional Passport Office Lucknow was opened in December 1956 and is currently located at Nav Chetna Kendra, 10, Ashok Marg, Lucknow-226018. This Office deals with passport requests from Bundelkhand, Eastern and Central Uttar Pradesh covering 48 districts.
Mumbai's Passport Office, being the only one in the region, caters to the residents from Greater Mumbai, over and above districts of Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Aurangabad and Beed in Maharashtra. Apart from this, it is also the sole destination for people applying from Daman and Silvassa, which come under the Union Territory of Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli.
Passport Office Goa started functioning from 1988. It caters to two districts viz North Goa and South Goa. The office is centrally located at Patto Plaza, Near Kadamba Bus stand, Panaji, Goa .
The Passport Office, Trivandrum came into existence as a full-fledged office in January 1992. Presently the office is housed in a rented 5 storied building. The present jurisdiction of the Passport Office, Trivandrum covers the districts of Trivandrum, Kollam and Pathanamthitta.
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