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E-PASSPORT
All MRP to be e-Passport within 5-yrs: Kamal tells JS
SANGSAD BHABAN, Feb 10, 2020 (BSS) – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today
said all the Machine Readable Passport (MRP) will gradually be turned into e-
Passport within next five years as it is internationally recognized travel
document across the world.
“All the existing Machine Readable Passport (MRP) would be transformed
into e-Passport in phases within next five years,” he said while responding
to a starred query made by Begum Shamsun Nahar of Women seat-13 in the House
here.
Bangladesh, a first country in the South Asia and 119th country in the
world, have launched risk free safe e-Passport. But the MRP and e-Passport
jointly would remain valid till the transformation take place, he added.
Three passport offices in the capital– divisional passport and visa office
Dhaka, regional passport office Uttara and regional passport office,
Jatrabari– have in advance launched the e-passport, Kamal told the
parliament.
As part of launching the e-passport, he said, it will be launched gradually
at all the divisional passport and visa offices and the regional passport
offices within 18 months.
For the Bangladeshi applicants, he said the government has fixed Taka
3,500, 5,500 and 7,500 as normal, emergency and most emergency categories
fees respectively for issuing 48-pages e-Passport for five-years while it
will be at Taka 5,000, 7,000 and 9,000 for 10-year.
Besides 64-pages e-Passport will be available at Taka 5,500, 7,500 and
10,500 respectively for aforesaid three categories for five years while it
will be available at Taka 7,000, 9,000 and 12,000 for issuing 10-year
passports.
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