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Foreigners Regional Registration Offices (FRRO) are established in various regions for ease of registration. Offices are located in Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Amritsar, Bangalore and Hyderabad. In regions without offices, the District Superintendents of Police serve as Registration Officers. [4]
Under the new scheme, a foreign citizen is no longer required to appear in-person at an FRRO, unless specifically required to do so. Around 360,000 foreign citizens visited FRRO offices across India in 2017. [4] [5]
The NPR planned for 2020 will also include more details such as the place of birth of the parents, last place of residence and the serial number for official documents. [20] Critics believe the Indian government will use the list to mark people as doubtful citizens after which they would be asked to prove their citizenship. [22]
Amritsar hosts Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport. The airport is connected to other parts of India and other countries with direct international flights to cities and is the 12th busiest airport in the country in terms of international traffic. [85] It serves Amritsar and several other districts in Punjab and neighbouring states.
Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 13 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the Indian state of Punjab, represented since 2017 by Gurjeet Singh Aujla of the Congress party. The Minister of Finance of India (2014–2019), Arun Jaitley , unsuccessfully contested this constituency for the BJP in 2014.
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (abbr. SGPC; lit. Supreme Gurdwara Management Committee) is an organization in India responsible for the management of gurdwaras, Sikh places of worship, in the states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and the union territory of Chandigarh.
108 is a free-to-call emergency telephone number in India. One-zero-eight is a free-to-call telephone number for emergency services in India.It is implemented by the respective state and union territory governments, mostly under Public–private partnership with funding from the National Health Mission of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
Attari, also spelled Atari, is a village of Amritsar district in the Punjab state of India, 3 km from the Indo-Pakistani border at Wagah.It is situated 25 km west of the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, [1] and is the last Indian station on the rail route connecting Lahore, Pakistan with the Indian capital Delhi. [2]