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| Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar |
New Delhi: No Objection Certificate (NOC) is not now a mandatory requirement for government employees to get a passport.
To streamline and check the undue delay in getting passports to the
government employees, the Ministry of External Affairs has relaxed
provisions for issue of passport and asked the government employees to
attach the copy of prior intimation letter submitted by the government
employees to their controlling authority before applied for passport.
The Ministry of External Affairs has recently issued an Office Memorandum No.VI/401/01/05/2014
making the ‘Prior Intimation Letter’ valid proof like ‘No Objection
Certificate (NOC)’ to obtain passport for government employees, public
sector undertakings (PSU) employees and autonomous body employees.
Government employees, who applies for passport with ‘Prior Intimation Letter’, they do not need to police verification.
The above provision is applied for getting passport only not for
VISA, the government employees are required to obtain ‘No Objection
Certificate (NOC)’ from their departments concerned for getting VISA
from foreign embassies for travelling abroad as per CCS (Conduct) Rules
and the instructions have been issued by the Department of Personnel and
Training (DoPT) from time to time.
