I am typing this sad note after having to go through the regretful 8 months to obtain Indian Passports for my parents residing at a small town of Assam called Dhula in Darrang District.
My father who is 63 years old is an ex employee of the Government of Arunachal Pradesh, he served as a Fishery Officer in different places of Arunachal for 32 years till he retired in 2003 and now treated as a 2nd class citizen of my own country INDIA. My mother who is 56 years of age now needs to appear in front of the SP [Superintendent of Police] to verify that she is a legitimate citizen of this country after a contingent of cops already have come home twice to verify her citizenship.
The story did not end there, after all this happened the file was misplaced by our most responsible authorities in charge and again we had no option but to wait.
My parents had a reason to apply for passports. I don't know if citizens should be justifying why they need passports though I had a notion that it is our right to have passports when we are a citizen of a country. But in my mom & dad's case they were asked by the authorities why they wanted passports. "They need this to visit their only daughter who is settled in Dubai now."
They applied for the passports in June and still waiting for it to be issued after all the formalities are done.
Passport File Nos are - Jiten Ch. Nath, A/FI-A/16741 DATED 1/06 & Padumi Nath, A/FI-A/16740 DATED 01/06
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