An Indian passport is a passport issued by the Government of India to citizens of the Republic of India for travelling abroad. It enables the bearer to travel internationally and serves as proof of Indian citizenship as per the Passports Act (1967).
The Ministry of External Affairs operates passport offices known as Passport Seva Kendras (PSK's) through 37 Regional Passport Offices, 93 Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) and 424 Post Office Passport Seva Kendras (POPSK) as of March 2023. The ministry has also setup 14 mini passport offices known as Passport Seva Laghu Kendras. Passport Seva Kendras (PSK) S.No. Administration Code PSK Area State/UT1AhmedabadAHMithakali, AhmedabadGujarat2Vijay Cross Road, Ahmedabad3Rajkot4Vadodara5AmritsarASAmritsarPunjab6BareillyBLBareillyUttar Pradesh7BengaluruBNLal Bagh, BengaluruKarnataka8BNMarathahalli, Bengaluru9BNHubbali–Dharwad10BNMangaluru11BhopalBPBhopalMadhya Pradesh12BhubaneswarBHBhubaneswarOdisha13ChandigarhCHChandigarhChandigarh14AmbalaHaryana15LudhianaPunjab16ChennaiMAAminjikarai, ChennaiTamil Nadu17Saligramam, Chennai18Tambaram, Chennai19Puducherry20CochinCOTripunithura, CochinKerala21Aluva, Cochin22Alappuzha23Kottayam24Thrissur25CoimbatoreCBCoimbatoreTamil Nadu26DehradunDDDehradunUttarakhand27Delhi NCRDLRK Puram, South West DelhiDelhi28Janakpuri, West Delhi29Shalimar Bagh, North Delhi30Herald House–ITO, Central Delhi31Nehru Place, South East Delhi32Defence Colony, South Delhi33Mehrauli, South Delhi34Jhandewalan, Central Delhi35Patparganj, East Delhi36Yamuna Vihar, North East Delhi37GurgaonHaryana38FaridabadHaryana31GZGhaziabadUttar Pradesh32GoaPJPanajiGoa33GuwahatiGUGuwahatiAssam34HyderabadHYBegumpet, HyderabadTelangana35MGBS, Hyderabad37Raidurg, Hyderabad38Nizamabad39JaipurJPJaipurRajasthan40Jodhpur41Sikar42JalandharJAPSK–1, JalandharPunjab43PSK–2, Jalandhar44Hoshiarpur45JammuJMJammuJammu and Kashmir46KolkataCAKolkataWest Bengal47Baharampur48KotaKotaRajasthan49Udaipur II50KozhikodeKOKoyenco House, KozhikodeKerala51Vatakara, Kozhikode52Padannapalam, Kannur53Payyanur, Kannur54Malappuram II55LucknowLKPSK–1, LucknowUttar Pradesh56PSK–2, Lucknow57Gorakhpur58Kanpur59Varanasi60MaduraiMDMaduraiTamil Nadu61Tirunelveli62MumbaiBOAndheri, MumbaiMaharashtra63Lower Parel, Mumbai64Malad, Mumbai65Nashik II66Thane II67NagpurNGNagpur68PatnaPAPatnaBihar69PunePNPuneMaharashtra70Solapur71RaipurRPRaipurChhattisgarh72RanchiRCRanchiJharkhand73ShimlaSMShimlaHimachal Pradesh74SrinagarSGSrinagarJammu and Kashmir75SuratSUSuratGujarat76Vadodara II77TiruchirappalliTiruchirappalliTamil Nadu78Thanjavur79TrivandrumTVNeyyattinkara, TrivandrumKerala80Vazhuthacaud, Trivandrum81Kollam82VijayawadaVJVijayawada IIAndhra Pradesh83Tirupati II84VisakhapatnamVSVisakhapatnam
Passport Seva Laghu Kendras (PSLK) S.No. Administration Code PSLK Area State/UT1BengaluruBNGulbargaKarnataka2ChennaiMAPondicherryPuducherry3GuwahatiGUAizawlMizoram4ChümoukedimaNagaland5ImphalManipur6ItanagarArunachal Pradesh7ShillongMeghalaya8HyderabadHYKarimnagarTelangana9KolkataCAAgartalaTripura10GangtokSikkim11PunePNNandedMaharashtra12VisakhapatnamVSBhimavaramAndhra Pradesh13BhopalINDIndoreMadhya Pradesh
Source: Passport Seva, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India Post Office Passport Seva Kendra Locator
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