Ensure timely delivery of passports : PM to officials

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday asked the officials to ensure timely delivery of passports without any delay and harassment.
“Make sure that the passport seekers get their passports in time. Don’t harass them,” she said while opening issuance of Machine Readable Passports (MRPs) in 33 regional passport offices over a videoconference with officials at Laxmipur from her official residence Ganobhaban, according to a news agency.
Regional passport offices at Laxmipur, Madaripur, Shariatpur, Rajbari and Naogaon will now be able to deliver MRPs.
Apart from these five offices, currently 34 regional offices in 31 districts and 48 embassies/high commissions are delivering MRPs. These offices have so far been given 9 million MRPs.  
The prime minister also opened another 28 passport offices across the country.
“Soon the people of 64 districts of the country will get their MRPs from their own districts,” she said.
Hasina said to ease the passport issuance procedure, the government has integrated the MRP with the software of national identity card (NID) of the Election Commission. “This will make the passport delivery procedure easier,” she said.