Passport office at Vashi for Navi Mumbaikars
Passport Service Centre has started in the premises of Vashi’s Post
Office. The inauguration of this Centre was done by Thane District Guardian
Minister Eknath Shinde. This place was booked for the Centre before the
elections and the bhumi pujan of this place was also done. Three persons were
appointed in this passport office. They were two postal assistant and one
passport scrutinizing officer. In all, 20 persons will be called to the place
for registration purpose and their work will be done. After the registration,
within three or four days, their passports will be sent to them by post at
their homes. The starting of Postal Passport Service Centre in Vashi, the other
places like Panvel, Kalyan, Dombivali, Ambarnath will benefit too. In fact, 25
lakhs residents will benefit. Now the Navi Mumbaikars are saved the trouble of
visiting Thane or Mumbai for obtaining passport.
The fact is since last many years the residents of Navi Mumbai were
demanding a passport office in their city itself. The efforts along this
direction were also being made. But those who were making efforts would fail to
achieve success in this matter. When Rajan Vichare became the Member of
Parliament, the Central External Affair Minister Sushma Swaraj, on 6 July 2017,
visited Thane Loksabha constituency, in Navi Mumbai and Mira-Bhayander, and she
was requested through correspondence to start a Passport Service Office in the
city.
Those days, the people of Navi Mumbai and Mira-Bhayander would have to
come to Thane Passport Office for any passport related work. This consumed a
lot of energy and also wasted the residents’ money. It was MP Rajan Vichare who
spoke about the woes of Navi Mumbai residents to the then External Affair
Minister Sushma Swaraj who promptly sent to MP Rajan Vichare a letter dated 2
February 2018 saying that it was already decided to have passport offices at
Pimpri, Aurangabad and Kolhapur in Maharashtra and that now 16 more places will
also have passport offices and these 16 places will include Navi Mumbai and
Mira-Bhayander in the future. She specifically mentioned Vashi post office in
the premises of which Vashi post office would come up. But owing to
non-availability of manpower and machinery, MP Rajan Vichare, on 10 May 2019,
personally met Chief Passport Officer Arun K Chaterjee and got him to start the
passport office at the earliest. Thus MP Rajan Vichare at last met with
success.
India is in need of such leaders like MP Rajan Vichare who,
single-mindedly and with full devotion to their duties, pursue the issues which
are of great public interest. This style of functioning of MP Vichare has
earned him victory in the recent Lok Sabha election for the second time in
succession. If he continues to play his role as MP in similar fashion even in
the future, then don’t be surprised if he will bag a cabinet post at the Centre
in the near future.
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