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Post Office Passport Seva Kendra to be inaugurated on April 30

Kushinagar (UP), Apr 25 (UNI) The 450th Post Office Passport Seva Kendra, which was scheduled to be launched on Friday, will now be inaugurated on April 30 in Kushinagar district here in Uttar Pradesh, an official said here.
Senior Post Superintendent Ajay Kumar Pandey said that the Post Office Passport Seva Kendra being set up for the first time in Kushinagar's district headquarters Ravindra Nagar will be inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Ministry of External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh and Union Minister of State for Rural Development and Ministry of Communications Dr Chandrashekhar Pemmasani.
Dumariaganj MP Jagdambika Pal, Rajya Sabha MP Ratanjit Pratap Narayan Singh and Kushinagar MP Vijay Kumar Dubey will also be present on this occasion.
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