Chief adviser to the interim government Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday told the deputy commissioners鈥� annual conference that the government had scrapped the provision regarding police verification generally required for anyone to get passport.
Inaugurating the three-day conference of the district administrators at his Tejgaon office in the Dhaka city, the chief adviser said that it was a right of a citizen to have passport and there was no need for police verification from now on for the聽 issuance of passport to any citizen of the country.
鈥極btaining a passport is one of the citizens鈥� rights. If we don鈥檛 require police verification for birth certificates or NIDs, why should it be necessary for passports?鈥� Yunus questioned the necessity of the mandatory police verification before the issuance of passport in the opening session of the conference.
Divisional commissioner of Dhaka Sharf Uddin Ahmed Choudhury, Chattogram deputy commissioner Farida Khanom and Panchagarh deputy commissioner Md Sabet Ali spoke in the inaugural session, officials present in the meeting said.
Deputy commissioners from all 64 districts and eight divisions are attending the conference.
Working sessions with various ministries are being held at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the capital.
There were widespread allegations of irregularities against the police in the process of verification of the passport applicants鈥� personal data, which was mandatory for getting passport.
