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A rather ambitious e-governance project, which among other things, aims to cut down the time taken to issue a new passport to 3 days from the current minimum 30 days (which usually stretches to even a year), is nearing completion, with pilot projects in Chandigarh and Bangalore, expected to be launched soon.
The Passport Seva Project began as one of the 27 Mission Mode Projects listed in the national e-governance plan. The Union cabinet approved the seven point plan last September, which included turning the current 36 regional passport offices into back-end offices and a private service provider setting up 68 facilitation offices. [Via]