By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Feb 22: The centre is ready to explore the possibility of having a passport office based in Tura if the state proposes, Union Minister of States for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita said here on Saturday.
“If a request comes from the state government we will explore but our ministry is working hard to cater services to the remotest part of our country and if such proposal comes we will discuss and we are optimistic to have something like that.”
Earlier, the then Union minister for external affairs Sushma Swaraj had accepted Tura Lok Sabha MP Conrad K. Sangma’s request to set up a passport seva kendra in Tura.
He had made a pitch for setting up the passport office in Garo Hills which shares a stretch of 225km boundary with Bangladesh and people without a passport find it difficult to travel to the neighbouring country.
In the absence of a passport office, the people of Garo Hills are forced to travel to Shillong or Guwahati to make one.
It may be mentioned that the first passport Seva Kendra in Meghalaya was inaugurated in Shillong in 2014.
