JKWP President Mir Junaid strongly voiced concern over the Srinagar passport office’s deteriorating services.

Workers Party President Mir Junaid strongly voiced concern over the Srinagar passport office’s deteriorating services.

Requests LG Manoj Sinha for intervention to help distressed citizens

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Srinagar, Sep 20: Jammu and Kashmir Workers Party President, Mir Junaid on Tuesday took to 

his social media’s verified twitter handle and expressed his serious concern over the deteriorating 

services and creating hurdles for citizens by Passport office Srinagar. He in a series of tweets said 

that Regional Passport office in Kashmir division has become an administrative nightmare for the 

residents. The people have been pushed to the wall while tagging the Union External Affairs 

Minister, Dr S. Jaishankar. 

While deliberating on the financial administrative losses to the populace, he said that if a person 

has an expired passport, he is forced to undergo the administrative process as if he is applying 

for a new one. This causes delays, financial administrative losses to a huge population.

Pertinent to mention here that Mir Junaid has never been a habitual of criticising government 

polices. He in his series of tweets questioned the requirement of mother’s passport, if someone 

wants to renew, and he tweets, “Then, a new (and may I say comical?) requirement is that people 

are asked to get their mothers passport if they want to renew their old passports! No where do 

the rules mention these bizarre requirements!” (sic), he tweeted. 

Another tweet wherein Mir says that offices are meant to ease public problems but the passport 

office in Srinagar had become a new trauma centre. He tweeted, 

“Women who change their names (or surnames) after marriage or those who have slight spelling 

corrections – they are made to undergo hell. Even after showing newspaper cuttings, apparently 

it isn’t deemed to be enough! The place which was meant to assist the citizens, which runs on 

the taxes paid by the citizens, has become a trauma centre for those very citizens on whose taxes 

it runs! The phone helpline is of course never answered @MEAIndia, (sic)” Tweets Mir. 

Among his thread of tweets, he in his last tweet appeals lieutenant Governor of Jammu and 

Kashmir to interfere into the functioning of such offices that create hurdles instead of bringing 

ease in people’s lives. 

“I request the honourable Lieutenant Governor @manojsinha_ to look into this pressing matter. 

It is causing extreme inconvenience to thousands of citizens in J&K.”