Telangana India's Best passport service

 Telangana | Written by : Suryaa Desk Updated: Fri, Jun 22, 2018, 03:15 PM

Hyderabad: The performance of passport offices in Telangana is adjudged as the best in the country. The regional offices have bagged two awards for best performance in passport police verification and delivery of passports.

Telangana police, for the third time has been adjudged the best in passport verification. While the national average for 2017-18 is 21 days, the state police completeed the process is only 4 days.

Also, the Hyderabad passport office stood first in overall performance among Category-A, that is issuing more than 5 lakh passports annually.

“The ministry has also approved integration of ‘Verifast’ application used by TS police for passport verification. This will further reduce the time taken for police verification in TS, said regional passport officer Dr E Vishnu Vardhan Reddy.