Indian missions across the world to issue passports in less than 48 hours soon: V K Singh

Indian missions across the world to issue passports in less than 48 hours

Indian missions over the world would before long issue international IDs in under 48 hours to residents abroad, Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh said here.

Tending to a get-together in the wake of propelling the 'Identification Seva' venture at the Indian Embassy here on Saturday, he said the international ID workplaces at Indian missions have been carefully connected with the server farm back home, which would accelerate the procedure of issuing visa.

Prior this week, the Indian mission at New York Earlier this week, the Indian mission at New York issued international IDs in under 48 hours. "This will occur over the world," Singh stated, giving over international IDs issued under the new undertaking to natives abroad.

Stating that in the coming days India will have the best identification benefits on the planet, the clergyman said there has been a noteworthy rearrangements of standards and controls for visa candidates and check of a great deal of data of the candidates would be done carefully.

The 'Identification Seva' venture was first propelled in the UK a month ago.

In US, the venture was first taken off in New York on November 21, trailed by Washington on Saturday. It would be thusly propelled in Indian Consulates at Atlanta, Houston, Chicago and San Francisco.

After the UK and US, the task would be reached out to all the Indian missions over the globe, Singh said.

Navtej Singh Sarna, Indian Ambassador to the US, who was additionally present at the dispatch, stated, "This is really going to quantitatively and subjectively enhance our identification benefits tremendously, both in the extent of the applications that can be dealt with and furthermore in the manner in which they will be taken care of and the manner in which they will be incorporated into the general much better consular administrations."

The clergyman said in the following couple of months, the Indian government will issue another arrangement of identifications, the structure of which have just been endorsed.

The new international IDs will have all sort of security highlights and better printing and paper quality, Singh said.

Be that as it may, "there will be no adjustment in the shade of the Indian international ID," he cleared up.

Singh further said by March "our exertion is to have 500 international ID workplaces or focuses crosswise over India" to guarantee that "no native in India needs to travel more than 50-60 km to apply for an identification". As of now the number stands at 336.

Later at night, Singh was congratulated by the neighborhood Indian people group at a gathering facilitated by the National Council of Asian Indian relationship in a joint effort with other Indian people group associations.