Reply from Ministry of External Affairs of an RTI Application regarding number of days it takes to issue a passport in various regions
Through my previous blog posts , you must be knowing that it took almost 9 months for my passport to travel from Lucknow to Kanpur, even Indian Railways are faster than this. After this incidence I decided to file an RTI application to unearth the data of different regions and to find out that which region is working efficiently in processing the passport application. Application: 1. How many days it takes for a Normal and Tatkal passport application to process and to issue a passport in different regions? 2. How many passports are issued within 3 days, 7 days, 14, days, 21 days and 30 days in case of Normal Passport and how many passports are issued on the same day, within 2 days and 3 days in case of Tatkal Passport? Despite the fact that I asked for the time taken in issuing the passport, including Police Verification Time but the reply I got was excluding the Police Verification time which does not provide the clear picture but it's good