Coimbatore Passport Office Corruption - Officials arrested

The news yesterday about Coimbatore Passport office is that there has been arrests of couple of passport officials for corruption and passport racket.

Can you imagine the corruption officials include women also? These officials have corrupted with bribes almost Rs.25 lakhs and produced passports on Tatkal.

The 3 officials involved in this were arrested yesterday by CBI. What a disgrace!

Such an important position and this might involve any national threat also, by issuing passports illegally. How could this happen?

This incident arises a question in my mind - Does Coimbatore need a passport office or any kind of branch office - if the officials behave in this way? (This article is aiming at only corrupt officials and I am sure there are majority of sincere and clean officials).

Anyway, Grow up Coimbatore!!

News about Coimbatore corruption in passport office.

Our blog post for Coimbatore Passport Office details.

Online Grievance Forum - Coimbatore Complaints - ex: Passport Office

Online Grievance Forum�[Government of India]

Dear Friends,

Government of India has an online Grievance forum at http://www.pgportal.gov.in

The government wants people to use this tool to highlight the problems they faced while dealing with Government officials or departments like:

1. Railways
2. Posts
3. Telecom (incl. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL)
4. Urban Development (Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Land Development Office (L&DO), Central Public Works Department (CPWD), etc)
5. Petroleum Natural Gas
6. Civil Aviation (Air India, Airports Authority of India, etc)
7. Shipping, Road Transport Highways
8. Tourism
9. Public Sector Banks
   • Allahabad Bank
   • Andhra Bank
   • Bank of Baroda
   • Bank of India
   • Bank of Maharashtra
   • Canara Bank
   • Central Bank of India
   • Corporation Bank
   • Dena Bank
   • Indian Bank
   • Indian Overseas Bank
   • Industrial Development Bank of India Ltd
   • National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
   • Oriental Bank of Commerce
   • Punjab Sind Bank
   • Punjab National Bank
   • Small Industries Development Bank of India
   • State Bank of Bikaner Jaipur
   • State Bank of Hyderabad
   • State Bank of India State
   • Bank of Indore
   • State Bank of Mysore
   • State Bank of Patiala
   • State Bank of Travancore
   • Syndicate Bank
   • UCO Bank
   • Union Bank of India
   • United Bank of India
   • Vijaya Bank
10. Public Sector Insurance Companies
    • GIC of India
    • Life Insurance Corporation of India
    • National Insurance Company Ltd.
    • The New India Assurance Company Ltd.
    • The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd.
    • United India Insurance Company Ltd.
11. National Saving Scheme of Ministry of Finance
12. Employees' Provident Fund Organization
13. Regional Passport Authorities
    • Regional Passport Office, Ahemadabad
    • Regional Passport Office, Amritsar
    • Regional Passport Office, Bangalore
    • Regional Passport Office, Bareilly
    • Regional Passport Office, Bhopal
    • Regional Passport Office, Bhubaneswar
    • Regional Passport Office, Chandigarh
    • Regional Passport Office, Chennai
    • Regional Passport Office, Cochin
    • Regional Passport Office, Coimbatore
    • Regional Passport Office, Dehradun
    • Regional Passport Office, Delhi
    • Regional Passport Office, Ghaziabad
    • Regional Passport Office, Goa
    • Regional Passport Office, Guwahati
    • Regional Passport Office, Hyderabad
    • Regional Passport Office, Jaipur
    • Regional Passport Office, Jalandhar
    • Regional Passport Office, Jammu
    • Regional Passport Office, Kolkata
    • Regional Passport Office, Kozhikode
    • Regional Passport Office, Lucknow
    • Regional Passport Office, Coimbatore
    • Regional Passport Office, Malappuram
    • Regional Passport Office, Mumbai
    • Regional Passport Office, Nagpur
    • Regional Passport Office, Patna
    • Regional Passport Office, Pune
    • Regional Passport Office, Raipur
    • Regional Passport Office, Ranchi
    • Regional Passport Office, Shimla
    • Regional Passport Office, Srinagar
    • Regional Passport Office, Surat
    • Regional Passport Office, Thane
    • Regional Passport Office, Trichy
    • Regional Passport Office, Trivandrum
    • Regional Passport Office, Visakhapatnam
14. Central Government Health Scheme
15. Central Board of Secondary Education
16. Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
17. National Institute of Open Schooling
18. Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti
19. Central Universities
20. ESI Hospitals and Dispensaries directly controlled by ESI Corporation under Ministry of Labour.

Many of us say that these things don't work in India . Couple of months back, the Faridabad Municipal Corporation laid new roads in his area and the residents were very happy about it. But 2 weeks later, BSNL dug up the newly laid roads to install new cables which annoyed all the residents. A resident used the above listed grievance forum to highlight his concern. To his surprise, BSNL and Municipal Corporation of Faridabad were served a show cause notice and the guy received a copy of the notice in one week. Government has asked the MC and BSNL about the goof up as it's clear that both the government departments were not in sync at all.

So use this grievance forum and educate others who don't know about this facility. This way we can at least raise our concerns instead of just talking about the 'System' in India.

Invite your friends to contribute for many such happenings.

PLEASE SPREAD THIS MESSAGE IF U WANT OUR INDIA TO HAVE A BETTER TOMORROW FORWARD THIS MAIL TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE.

Coimbatore Passport Details - Holiday Lists - Office Timings - Applying Passport Details - Current Status of newly applied passport

Applying Passport in Coimbatore

On bifurcation of Passport Office, Tiruchirappalli, Passport Office, Coimbatore started functioning from 17 th December, 2007. Eight districts, namely Coimbatore, Theni, Sivagangai, Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli & Kanyakumari come under its jurisdiction.

Passports in respect of applications submitted before 17th December 2007 will be despatched by Passport Office, Tiruchirappalli and all enquiries relating to it, are to be made only there.

OFFICE TIMINGS
9.30am to 12:00 Noon: For submission of application forms, on-line registration, enquiry, meeting with Passport Officer / Superintendents etc.

While meeting Passport Officer OR Superintendents, please bring relevent documents e.g. Annexure-F, Annexure-I, in case of Tatkaal Scheme and stay proof, birth certificate, 10th / 12th certificate etc. etc. in the case of any other objection.

1.00pm to 2.00pm: Lunch Break

(Xerox shops, Photo Studio, Online Application Forms are available nearby by private vendors)

Current status of the newly applied passport can be availed at
http://164.100.17.25/passmain.php?city=covai

CONTACT:
Passport Office, Bharathi Ula Veethi, Race Course Road, Coimbatore-625 002.

Tel. No.: 0452-2521205
Fax: 0452-2522070
E-mail: rpo.coimbatore@mea.gov.in
Enquiry: 0452-2520794/95/96

List of Holidays
DATE HOLIDAY
08.01.2009 Muharram
14.01.2009 Pongal
26.01.2009 Republic Day
23.02.2009 Maha Shivrathiri
10.03.2009 Milad-Un-Nabi
07.04.2009 Mahavir Jayanthi
10.04.2009 Good Friday
09.05.2009 Buthha Purnima
15.08.2009 Independence Day
21.09.2009 Ramzan
25.09.2009 Additional Day For Dusharra
28.09.2009 Vijaya Dasami
02.10.2009 Ganthi Jayanthi
17.10.2009 Deepavali
02.11.2009 Guru Nanaks BirthDay
28.11.2009 Bakrid
25.12.2009 Christmas Day
28.12.2009 Muharram


Official website of Indian Passport Office http://passport.gov.in

Courtesy: !!m a d u r a i d i r e c t o r y website!!

Latest News about Coimbatore Passport - Apply passport online

There is one of the previous posts for "Applying Passport details in Coimbatore".

Apart from that a latest news about Coimbatore passport is -

Inside the campus of Coimbatore passport office, a new facility for applying passport online is available. Using this, people can apply passport online. The passport application gets forwarded to the office soon and it is taken care.

Source of the news is w e b d u n i a