MoS Meenakshi Lekhi visits Amritsar RPO

Tribune News Service Amritsar, January 3 The Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture Meenakshi Lekhi visited the Regional Passport Office (RPO) in Amritsar. Incidentally, the new passport officer Shamsher Bahadur Singh also took over the charge today....

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Updated At : 03:03 PM Jan 04, 2022 IST

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 3

The Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture Meenakshi Lekhi visited the Regional Passport Office (RPO) in Amritsar. Incidentally, the new passport officer Shamsher Bahadur Singh also took over the charge today.

She observed the functioning of the office and also spoke to the applicants, listened to their grievances and tried to resolve the issues in collaboration with the officials.

She said the focus was to streamline the process of passport related services and get it free from the illegal touts who play the spoilsport. “Our aim was to make the whole process efficient, transparent and hassle-free for the beneficiaries and our teams were working in this direction,” she said.