Govt issues over 1.4m MRPs in 7 months
Friday, 30 December 2011
The Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) has issued 14,17,068 machine readable passports (MRPs) among Bangladeshi nationals since its introduction on May 1, 2010 earning Tk 5.08 billion for the national exchequer, officials said.The number of MRP passport seekers also increased and some 9,000-10,000 people submit applications and the same number of people get passports every day from the head office and 33 regional offices across the country, they said. - BSS