Hyderabad, October 13: Seventy-five people got their passports on the spot during the Passport Adalat held at the Regional Passport Office (RPO), Hyderabad, on Wednesday. The passport authorities conduct Passport Adalat on second Wednesday of every month.
“For the first time, we issued passports to applicants on the spot. A week ago, we had asked the applicants who applied for passports between March and August, 2011 (six months) to register their names online. We had received 150 requests. Our staff scrutinized the applications and gave clearance to prepare passports for 75 of them,” Regional passport officer K Srikar Reddy told TOI.
The RPO staff would check the remaining applications and dispatch their passports within a week, he added.
asApplications will be closed if there is no proper response from the applicants,a? the RPO stated.
—–Courtesy:Times o I