Summary:
Regional Passport Officer for Pune, Anant Takwale Regional Passport Officer for Pune, Anant TakwaleRegional Passport Officer for Pune and an IPS officer of 2006 batch, Anant Takwale, tells Pune Newsline how Pune region coped when its jurisdiction was doubled, and still managed to bring down the waiting time for passport applicants, and why people should not hide information while filling their passport forms. But has the police verification process caught up with the changes brought in by the Ministry of External Affairs? The role of the passport office is to facilitate the process of a citizen getting his passport, which is his right. We have opened as many as 11 Post Office Passport Seva Kendra (POPSK) across the Pune region in last few months. Work on the new passport office building in Baner seems to have been delayed..