Two-day passport adalat to hold from May 1 in Leh

By Stanzin Dasal LEH, Apr 30, 2018
LEH :
The regional passport office, Srinagar is organising a two day Passport Adalat on May 1 and 2 at Post office, Main Market in Leh.

Applicants whose applications are pending due to various reasons are requested to inform along with the relevant documents.

Applications are requested to represent their cases on the said date in person between 9:00 am to 5:30 pm.

Addressing the press conference on April 30 at Nunkun Guest Office, B B Nagar, Regional passport officer, Srinagar said, “Around 3,000 applications from Leh and Kargil are pending because of the address issues. In Ladakh, the pending cases is more among the students and monks who apply for the address in their respective place and later during verification they are not present because the maximum of them are residing outside the state for study and other purposes. Therefore it is necessary to mention both the permanent and present address".

Regarding the issues, he said that an amount of ₹ 500 will be charged as a penalty and service will be granted to the students in case of unsigned Police Verification Report (PVR).While the grievances of the other will be also taken down with the penalized amount.

He informed that no cyber cafes and other institutes are hired for the passport application. And no extra amount will be charged other than the mentioned fees.
Out of the allotted 230 appointments, only 9 have applied online till now.
He stressed people to avail the benefit and suggested to apply the passport for the families altogether for their convenience.

The application will be made online by visiting www.passportindia.gov.in for the Fresh and reissue service.

Documents required for the Fresh cases:
 

Applicants

Required Documents

Details

Below matric

Proof of Date of Birth

Aadhar  Card, Pan card, Driving License or Voter Id (Any one)

Proof for Present Residence

Aadhar  Card, Voter ID, Gas connection, Bank Account Pass book or Electricity bill last six months. (Any one)

 

Matric and above

Proof of Date of Birth

Aadhar  Card, Pan card, Driving License or Voter Id (Any one)

 

 

Proof for Present Residence

Aadhar  Card, Voter ID, Gas connection, Bank Account Pass book or Electricity bill last six months.(Any one)

Proof of ECNR

Matriculation certificate from any board

Tax assessment for preceding two financial years.

 Students studying outside

Proof of Date of Birth

Date of birth certificates( From any recognized board)

 

Proof of Permanent address

If applicant is staying out of the state for the last one year, he/she should mention both the addresses prescribed in the online application. Besides furnish the permanent address proof with Aadhar card, Voter ID , Gas connection or Bank Account pass book with entry page for last six months.

Government Employee

Proof of Date of Birth

Date of birth certificate issued by any recognized board.

Annexure H

 

 

 

 

Proof of present address

Aadhar  Card, Voter ID, Gas connection, Bank Account Pass book or Electricity bill last six months.(Any one)

 

Minor (below15 to 18 years)

Proof of Date of Birth

Aadhar  Card, school certificates, Date of birth from birth and death registrar (Any one)

 

Proof for Present Residence

Parents passport copies (if available), Parents aadhaar cards, Voter Ids or Bank Account Passbook.

Monk

Proof of Date of Birth

Aadhar  Card, Pan card, Driving License or Voter Id (Any one)

 

Proof for Present Residence

Aadhar Card, Voter ID, Gas connection, Bank Account Pass book or Electricity bill last six months. (Any one)

If  staying outside state for the last one year, should mention both the addresses in the online application form besides furnish the permanent residence proof anyone of the above documents.

And for the Reissue cases, documents required are:
 
Original previous passport, photocopies of previous passport first and last four pages, Photocopies of all stamped visa pages.
In case there is any change in personal particulars, the applicants needs to furnish proof for the same.
In case of name change of an applicant who is not a government employee, needs to furnish two id proofs for the required name.

In case of name change of an applicant being government employee, needs to furnish the attested first page of the service book bearing the required name along with the two id proofs.

Aplicants staying outside of the country for three years with broken period is eligible for ECNR reissuance category.

The two day Passport adalat will be taking fresh application and reissue cases. Whereas, for the broken and lost passport cases, the cases will be taken down in Srinagar.