4,000 Passports Delivered Across Jammu, Kashmir Region Post Aug 5

As many as 4,000 passports were delivered in Jammu and Kashmir post-August 5, Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday told Rajya Sabha and appreciated India Post for its good service. “There was no suspension of postal services in Kashmir post-August 5, 2019” and rather India Post has done a commendable job including the delivery of 4,000 passports, Prasad said during Question Hour in the Upper House. He said there are 1,694 post offices in Jammu and Kashmir including 698 in Kashmir. “Postal services remained unhindered. In August, a good amount of postal services were delivered. There was no dislocation per se,” Prasad said. However, to regulate the inward mail traffic and electronic money orders, the Department of Posts temporarily suspended booking and transmission of speed post, registration post and parcels from August 5 to August 18 and booking of electronic money orders to Kashmir from August 13 to 27 on account of operations reasons, he said.