Jalandhar Passport Office Launches SMS Service

Jalandhar passport office launches SMS service
Bipin Bhardwaj
Tribune News Service
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Jalandhar, December 16

The Regional Passport Office, Jalandhar, has become the first passport office of the country to provide proactive information about the passport status to applicants through SMS.

From today onwards, passport seekers could get information about the status of their applications right from its submission till the delivery on their cellphones.

Addressing a meeting of travel agents and mediapersons, regional passport officer (RPO) Perneet Singh said with the launching of the service, illegal activities of unauthorised travel agents would be curbed to a great extent.

Moreover, transparency and accountability will be maintained in issuing passports to applicants in time. The service has been launched with the support by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Jalandhar.

To avail this free-of-cost service, applicants have to register themselves once after submitting the passport application by sending their file numbers through SMS to the mobile phone number - 9988437900, following which applicants will start getting information about the status of their applications at every stage, including police verification, levelling objections, return of the file to passport office and then dispatch of the passport to the applicant.
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Perneet, however, said the service was available for new passports, files bearing P, Z and C alphabets. He said in the future, the service would be expanded for knowing the status of renewal of passports also.

The passport officer said 11,000 applications were pending with the police because of delay in police verification while 4,100 were delayed due to objections.

He also claimed to have taken up the issue of setting up a police enquiry centre at the Regional Passport Office, Jalandhar, for the convenience of applicants.

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