As recommended by the National Institute of Smart Government/NISG, the Government of India set up 77 ‘Passport Seva Kendras’/PSK’s under the jurisdictions of the 38 passport offices.
In the new ‘Passport Seva Project’all non-sensitive front end functions will be handled by a private Service Provider (Tata Conultancy Services/TCS) and all the critical sovereign roles and responsibilities will be held by the Government functionaries.
The following is the list of the 77 Passport Seva Kendras functioning since January 2011:-
Out of the 77 Passport Seva Kendras/PSK’s, 68 are located within the Passport Office and /or in other Districts within the Jurisdiction of the Passport Office and 9 PSK’s are co-located with the Passport Offices.
The following 68 PSK’s are located within the Passport offices and/or in other Districts within the Jurisdiction of the Passport Offices:
Passport Kendra/Passport Office of Jurisdiction-
- Ahmedabad 1/Ahmedabad
- Ahmedabad 2/Ahmedabad
- Baroda/Ahmedabad
- Rajkot/Ahmedabad
- Amritsar/Amritsar
- Bangalore- 1/Bangalore
- Bangalore -2/Bangalore
- Hubli-Dharwad/Bangalore
- Mangalore/Bangalore
- Bareilly/Bareilly
- Bhopal/Bhopal
- Chandigarh/Chandigarh
- Ludhiana/Chandigarh
- Ambala/Chandigarh
- Chennai 1/Chennai
- Chennai 2/Chennai
- Chennai 3/Chennai
- Cochin /Cochin
- Thrissur/Cochin
- Alappuzha/Cochin
- Ernakulam (Rural)/Cochin
- Kottayam/Cochin
- Coimbatore/Coimbatore
- Delhi 1/Delhi
- Delhi 2/Delhi
- Gurgaon/Delhi
- Ghaziabad/Ghaziabad
- Mumbai 1/Mumbai
- Mumbai 2/Mumbai
- Mumbai 3/Mumbai
- Hyderabad- 1/Hyderabad
- Hyderabad- 2/Hyderabad
- Hyderabad- 3/Hyderabad
- Vijayawada/Hyderabad
- Nizambad/Hyderabad
- Tirupathi/Hyderabad
- Jaipur /Jaipur
- Jodhpur/Jaipur
- Sikar /Jaipur
- Jalandhar 1/Jalandhar
- Jalandhar 2/Jalandhar
- Hoshiarpur/Jalandhar
- Kolkata /Kolkata
- Bahrampur/Kolkata
- Kozhikode 1/Kozhikode
- Kozhikode 2/Kozhikode
- Kannur 1/Kozhikode
- Kannur2/Kozhikode
- Lucknow /Lucknow
- Varanasi/Lucknow
- Kanpur/Lucknow
- Gorakhpur/Lucknow
- Madurai /Madurai
- Tirunelveli City/Madurai
- Pune/Pune
- Patna/Patna
- Malappuram/Malappuram
- Nagpur/Nagpur
- Surat/Surat
- Thane/Thane
- Nasik/Thane
- Trichy 1/Trichy
- Trichy 2/Trichy
- Thanajavur/Trichy
- Trivandrum/Trivandrum
- Kollam/Trivandrum
- Trivandrum (Rural)/Trivandrum
- Visakhapatnam/Vishahapatnam
The Following 9 Passport Seva Kendras/PSK’s are co-located with the Passport Offices:
- Bhubaneswar/ Bhubaneswar
- Dehradun /Dehradun
- Guwahati /Guwahati
- Jammu/ Jammu
- Panaji /Panaji
- Raipur/ Raipur
- Ranchi/ Ranchi
- Shimla /Shimla
- Srinagar/ Srinagar
In addition to the above 77 Passport Seva Kendras/PSK’s under partnership with private agency, the Government of India has set up 16 mini passport offices/Passport Seva Laghu Kendras/PSLK’s under the direct responsibility of the Passport Offices.
The following is the list of the 16 Passport Seva Laghu Kendras / PSLK’s in India:
1. Andhra Pradesh/Karimnagar,
2. Andra Pradesh/Bhimavaram
3. Arunachal Pradesh/Itanagar
4. Bihar/Darbhanga
5. Jammu & Kashmir/Leh
6. Karnataka/Gulbarga
7. Manipur/Imphal
8. Meghalaya/Shillong
9. Mizoram/Aizawl
10. Nagaland/Kohima
11. Pondicherry/Puducherry
12. Sikkim/Gangtok
13. Tripura/Agartala
14. West Bengal/Kharagpur,
15. West Bengal/Kolkata,
16.Wet Bengal/Siliguri