Your passport in three days, the ambitious Rs 1,100-crore Passport Seva Project (PSP) to be launched by the ministry of external affairs(MEA) on October 1 has been postponed – probably for another month.
TCS was expected to roll out the first pilot Passport Seva Kendra, (PSK) at Bangalore and Chandigarh which would be extended across the country subsequently. According to sources, just before the launch in testing the software, the Standardisation, Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) found about 600 bugs in the software that existed till after the third testing done recently.
The number of passports issued in the country has jumped from 35 lakh in 2005 to over 50 lakh in 2007. Due to accelerating demand, the ministry estimates that it will issue 10 million passports in 2011.
The project is one of the largest mission critical e-governance projects under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) for streamlining the passport services. Under the ambitious project, the MEA in collaboration with TCS, was to issue new passports within three working days and a tatkal’ one the same day, after police verification. [Via]
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