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A newly inaugurated entrance of the Post-Office Passport Seva Kendra in Dombivli, Mumbai. POPSK was announced on 24 January 2017 as a joint venture between Ministry of External Affairs and the Department of Posts for the objective of using Head Post Offices (HPO) in various states of India as Post Office Passport Seva Kendra (POPSK) for ensuring wider access to passport services.
The Ministry of External Affairs operates passport offices known as Passport Seva Kendras (PSK's) through 37 Regional Passport Offices, 93 Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) and 424 Post Office Passport Seva Kendras (POPSK) as of March 2023. The ministry has also setup 14 mini passport offices known as Passport Seva Laghu Kendras. [2] [3]
The GPO has the Postal Index Number (PIN) 400 001. Due to its proximity to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Mumbai's central station, it is ideally situated to dispatch and receive mail to and from other cities in India. It also controls the smaller post offices in Mumbai, issues stamps, and prints
Indian passports are issued at 97 passport offices located across India and at 197 Indian diplomatic missions abroad. [2] As of 31 December 2023, 6.5 percent (92,624,661) of Indian citizens possessed a valid passport, with Kerala having the highest number of passport holders of all Indian states. Previously, passports were not popular among the ...
Yogayog Bhawan (head office of the West Bengal wing of India Post), at Chittaranjan Avenue, Bowbazar, Kolkata. The number of post offices was 23,344 when India became independent in 1947 and these were primarily in urban areas. The number increased to 165,000 in 2025 and 90% of these were in rural areas. [24]
The service became quickly popular: for UPS the number of packages tracked on the web increased from 600 a day in 1995 [9] to 3.3 million a day in 1999. [10] On-line package tracking became available for all major carrier companies, and was improved by the emergence of websites that offered consolidated tracking for different mail carriers. [11]
The Chennai GPO is the primary post office of South India and has the Postal Index Number (PIN) 600 001. The GPO handles most of the city's inbound and outbound mail and parcels. Chennai GPO operates from 8:00 am to 8:30 pm from Monday to Saturday.
The Central Base Post Offices are 56 and 99 APO operating out of New Delhi (1 CBPO) and Kolkata (2 CBPO), respectively. 99 APO covers all formations in the eight north-eastern states, West Bengal and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands through its network of nearly 96 FPOs. 56 APO covers the rest of the country through its network of 262 FPOs.