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Rajya Sabha
The Minister of State for External Affairs, Shri E. Ahamed informed the Rajya Sabha today that forgeries in passports and visas do come to the notice of the authorities from time to time and the Government has taken several steps to check the menace of forged travel documents. These include introduction of Machine Readable Passports (MRP), computerisation of databases, installation of intelligent computer terminals at international airports, pre-induction and re-orientation training of immigration officials to detect forged travel documents.
The Minister added that whenever instances of forged travel documents come to light, the Government, in consultation with security Agencies, revokes such passports, and holders of such passports are placed in Prior Approval Category (PAC).
The Minister was replying to a question by Sh. E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan.
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