KL Report
SRINAGAR
After suspension of processing services at Passport office Srinagar since September 8, due to floods Passport office Srinagar will resume processing of applications from Monday.
According to the Passport Officer Srinagar Firdous Iqbal, in the first stage only some cases will be processed on a trial basis and the applicants in that case will be called by the Passport office on phone. “Simultaneously we are in the process of finding ways so that the fresh applications are also processed in Srinagar and the applicants are not put to trouble of going to other places like Jammu and outside state,” Iqbal told KNS.
Regarding damaged and lost passports in recent floods regarding which the ministry of external affairs that fee will be waived off in respect of those cases but they may have to wait for some time till the same is notified in the gazette which is expected very soon and after notifying the same in the gazette those cases will also be processed.
