RPO, Hyderabad achieves second spot for issuing passports in the country

The Regional Passport Office (RPO), Hyderabad, is now the second largest following issuance of 6.6 lakh passports after Lucknow with 6.9 lakh.

According to  Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay, Secretary (Consular Passport Visa & Overseas Indian Affairs), Union Ministry of External Affairs, said that more number of



people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were going to the Gulf.“The number of people going to Gulf from UP and Bihar has increased, compared to South India. That’s the reason more number of passports were issued from there,” he said.

Earlier, during the press conference at RPO Hyderabad, Mulay said that every year 1.3 crore new passports were being issued by the Ministry at an average rate of 50,000 passports per day across the country.