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Now, senior citizens, minor will have to pay 10% less to get passport made

News Agencies 23 June 2017, 15:48 IST

Now, senior citizens, minor will have to pay 10% less to get passport made

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today announced that passports would now be in both Hindi and English, and not just in English.

She also announced 10 per cent reduction in passport fee for applicants who are under eight and over 60.

Personal details in passports are now printed only in English.

The external affairs minister was addressing an event to mark 50 years of the Passport Act, 1967.

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