Noida receives its own passport workplace, services to begin these days
NOIDA: There’s good news for residents of Noida. You don’t need to visit Ghaziabad for a passport anymore. A new passport workplace has been set up at the top of the workplace in Noida’s Sector 19 beneath the important scheme, wherein numerous head put-up workplaces (HPOs) are being utilized as publishing workplace passport Seva Kendra (POPSKs).
On Wednesday, the new Passport, Seva Kendra, will be inaugurated by Union minister and Gautam Budh Nagar MP Mahesh Sharma. Sharma took up the ordeal of Noida citizens in availing passport centers with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), which approved the setting up a Passport Seva Kendra in the Sector 19 head post workplace underneath the important government scheme on November 26, last 12 months. “I was approved by the foreign affairs minister last year to install the passport Seva Kendra in Gautam Budh Nagar. Under the scheme, head post offices in parliamentary constituencies, districts, or towns, which can be 50km from the nearest passport center, may be utilized as passport Seva Kendra,” said Sharma. The Noida POPS will cater to all packages associated with new passports, corrections, trade of cope with, and renewals via earlier appointments booked on passportindia.Gov.In. While the personnel of Sector 19 head publishes office have been deployed for file collection, one verification officer from Ghaziabad local passport workplace might be a gift at the center.
The IT aid is provided via Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). So far, five applications have been widely widespread for processing on February 27, and over 50 appointments have already been booked online for February 28. Though packages for passports below the Tatkal class can be implemented at the Ghaziabad passport center, the Noida POPS will receive applications for brand-new keys, renewals, and address corrections. “For this, prior appointment desires to be booked online in which a resident has to refill a delegated form, pay the considered necessary charge, and select the appointment date from the options so that you can be thrown up on the website.
Applicants can then visit the center with requisite files on the date of appointment,” said Surender Singh, an official at the Sector 19 publish office. According to Rakesh Raina, public members of the family officer at Sector 19 publish workplace, Noida POPS will begin operations on Wednesday after the inauguration. “We have five appointments booked for Wednesday. All documents can be accumulated, screened, and processed at Noida POPS. After that, the papers might be despatched to Ghaziabad regional passport workplace, which allows you to the problem the passports and send them to Noida POPS for dispatch through submit,” stated Raina.