Under the Passport Seva Project (PSP), the desired service levels for passport issuance is 3 working days in case of fresh passports in No or Post-Police verification cases; 3 working days plus time taken for police verification in fresh passport cases requiring Pre-Police verification; and same or next day in Tatkaal cases subject to production of requisite documents.
Under the Passport Seva Project, all the planned 77 Passport Seva Kendras have been set up and made operational across the country.
A statement showing the number of passports issued, State-wise, under normal and Tatkaal category since the inception of PSP on 21st May, 2010 to 30th August, 2012 is given below:
S. No. | State/UT | Normal passports | Tatkaal passports |
1. | Andhra Pradesh | 2,85,125 | 50,674 |
2. | 1,722 | 2,487 | |
3. | 10,800 | 1,170 | |
4. | 4,56,743 | 20,364 | |
5. | Chhattisgarh | 961 | 315 |
6. | 1,14,225 | 36,507 | |
7. | 8,938 | 248 | |
8. | 1,93,760 | 5,209 | |
9. | Himachal Pradesh | 889 | 629 |
10. | Jammu & Kashmir | 664 | 49 |
11. | Jharkhand | 1,066 | 724 |
12. | Karnataka | 6,23,549 | 1,29,119 |
13. | Kerala | 2,09,973 | 1,00,524 |
14. | Madhya Pradesh | 1,219 | 834 |
15. | 92,994 | 23,682 | |
16. | Odisha | 1,024 | 1,573 |
17. | 1,14,417 | 3,925 | |
18. | Rajasthan | 37,029 | 8,325 |
19. | Tamil Nadu | 5,05,969 | 86,413 |
20. | Uttar Pradesh | 34,214 | 4,586 |
21. | Uttarakhand | 2,056 | 326 |
22. | 75,099 | 10,186 | |
TOTAL | 27,72,436 | 4,87,879 |
*Includes passport figures for six other North-Eastern states.
**Includes figures for Haryana as a PSK each is located in Ambala and Gurgaon under RPO Chandigarh and RPO Delhi respectively.
The Minister of State in the Ministry Of External Affairs Shri E. Ahamed provided this information in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
