The GOI (Govt of India) had made a significant change in the Passport
rules yesterday. It had announced that the mandatory requirement of Date of
Birth Certificate as Passport proof was eliminated and now they included Aadhar
card and e-Aadhar DOB as evidence of passport.
Under the new Passport rules, the Government also mentioned that Sadhus
and Sanyasis will now allow mentioning names of their spiritual gurus instead
of biological parents. The new rules were announced by the Minister of State
for External Affairs “VK Singh”, also
provides a facility for government servants, who are not able to get “no
Objection Certificate” from their respective ministries/departments. To simply
and free-up the process, the ministry has taken some steps in the dominion of
passport policy which is expected to help the citizens of India applying for a
passport, said Singh.
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Government Hikes 2% DA for Central Govt Employees and Pensioners, Generally while
filling the application, DOB Proof is asking, and now it has been decided that
all applicants of passports can submit any one of the documents like
transfer/school leaving/matriculation certificate, PAN Card, Aadhar
Card/E-Aadhar having the DOB of the applicant, Driving license and Election
Photo Identity Card.
According to the existing legislative provisions of the Passport rules,
1980, all the applicants born on or after January 26, 1989, had to submit the
DOB certificate as a proof of passport. Considering the Sadhus/Sanyasis request
that they should be allowed to write the names of their gurus instead of their
natural parents, Singh said that they have to give at least one public document
such as EPIC, PAN card, Aadhar Card, etc. wherein the name of the guru has been
registered.
And also to the Government employees, if any representative is facing
trouble to get the ID certificate/No Objection certificate from their manager
and propose to get the passport on an urgent basis, now they can get the
passport by submitting a self-declaration that he/she was applying for an
ordinary passport.
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the new rules, a total number of annexes prescribed in the Passport rule, 1980,
has been got down to 9 from the current 15 and all the extensions that are
required to be given by the applicants would be self-declaration on plain
paper. He also said the ministry was probing an experimental project under
which the head post offices could be used to provide passport services.Singh
also mentioned that currently there were 89 passport Seva centers apart from 38
passport offices and seven passport offices in the country.