The Indian Express: Article: Tuesday, 27 June 2023.
The information provided under the RTI Act only covers passports surrendered at RPOs, not the ones relinquished at Indian embassies and High Commissions abroad.
Between 2011 and 2022, close to 70,000 Indians surrendered their passports at regional passport offices (RPOs) across the country, with eight states Goa, Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Chandigarh accounting for over 90 per cent of the surrendered documents.
As many as 40.45 per cent of the 69,303 passports that were given up in this period were surrendered at the RPO in Goa, reveals data shared by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in response to a Right to Information (RTI) application filed by The Indian Express.
The 69,303 passports surrendered in RPOs since 2011 are, however, only a fraction of the Indian citizenship that was renounced in this period. According to information shared in Parliament by Minister of State in the MEA V Muraleedharan on March 24 this year, between 2011 and October 31 last year, over 16.21 lakh Indians renounced their citizenship.
The information provided under the RTI Act only covers passports surrendered at RPOs, not the ones relinquished at Indian embassies and High Commissions abroad.
Between 2011 and 2022, close to 70,000 Indians surrendered their passports at regional passport offices (RPOs) across the country, with eight states Goa, Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Chandigarh accounting for over 90 per cent of the surrendered documents.
As many as 40.45 per cent of the 69,303 passports that were given up in this period were surrendered at the RPO in Goa, reveals data shared by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in response to a Right to Information (RTI) application filed by The Indian Express.
The 69,303 passports surrendered in RPOs since 2011 are, however, only a fraction of the Indian citizenship that was renounced in this period. According to information shared in Parliament by Minister of State in the MEA V Muraleedharan on March 24 this year, between 2011 and October 31 last year, over 16.21 lakh Indians renounced their citizenship.
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