Harsimrat Badal secures passport facility for Bathinda, Patiala
Chandigarh/New Delhi: Union Minister Mrs Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Thursday secured a major Regional Passport Office (RPO) extension facility for the people of Bathinda and Patiala as the government of India directed the Regional Passport Officer Chandigarh to immediately facilitate the acceptance of all documents including passport applications through the Passport Seva Kendra in these cities. Before that, Gujarat and Karnataka are the only other states tosuch facilities for "passport related services." Giving this information, a spokesman of Ms Badal said that she had been trying hard to provide this facility to the people of Patiala and Bathinda they had to face lot of inconvenience in travelling to Chandigarh to fulfill even the most minor requirements for securing their passports. For the moment, Post Master General will function as the facilitator for these services. But for the people, it will have all the requisite facilities for filling and submission of applications and queries about their passports.
