Nagar Reporter: Deputy Director of Chittagong Chandgaon (Panchlaish) Regional Passport Office, Tarek Salman, has expressed reluctance to issue MRP passports to Chittagong remittance fighters coming from diaspora under the pretext of an NID card for the greater interest of the country and the nation. Complaints have been made. Remittance warriors, who are one of the suppliers of the economy of Bangladesh, are sending money to Bangladesh after years of hard work in different countries.
Many of them have not been able to collect the National ID Card (NID) of Bangladesh due to their stay abroad. The current government is discouraging MRRP passports and issuing e-passports in line with the developed countries of the world. It is mandatory to submit the NID cards of oneself and family members to collect an e-passport. It is not possible to get an e-passport without a NID card. because the NID card is mandatory in the software technology used to generate this passport. Passport authorities cannot issue an e-passport without favoring the NID card. Expats who come from abroad and want to return must have valid passports.
must return to work overseas at regular intervals during the term. When it is not possible to return abroad with an expired passport, one has to go to the Chandgaon (Panchlaish) passport office with an application for an MRP passport, and one has to suffer constant irony. A MRP passport is not obtained without paying a large bribe, even if one applies for the passport following all the conditions that are given to issue another MRP passport. On the other hand, applying for a NID card takes a long time. Even after the affected expats applied for NID cards and submitted all the necessary documents, including application receipts, Deputy Director Tariq Salman refrained from issuing MRP passports at the behest of the government.
According to the complaint, MRP passports are easily obtained by paying large sums of bribes through brokers “with tokens”. Around 10 lakh rupees of bribe trade is going on in the Panchlaish passport office every day. 1500 taka for each e-passport; 800 taka for not queuing for submission; 500 taka for not queuing for passport delivery; at least 10,000 taka for age change; 5,000 taka for each passport for name error; work resources. If the certificate is not given along with the title, any customer without a broker goes directly to the Chandgao Passport (Panchlaish) office and keeps wandering day after day on various pretexts. Which is unbelievable but true.
Despite the numerous articles and news stories published in different electronic media, print media, and online, no problem has been resolved. If you go to the passport office and see expatriates clamoring to get MRP passports, any human being will cry. When I informed Chittagong Regional Passport Officer Saeed Ahmad to issue a passport in compliance with all the conditions regarding the issue of MRP passports, he said, “If the documents are correct, I have instructions to issue an MRP passport on an urgent basis to an expatriate or a dementia patient.” The Hon’ble Prime Minister has directed the government to provide all kinds of facilities to expatriates. MRP passports may be phased out like handwritten passports. But until now, there has been no government directive regarding the issuance of MRP passports.
He said that apart from Bangladesh, we have visa offices in different countries of the world, but those offices are still not issuing e-passports without MRP. Therefore, the rule of issuing MRP passports on an urgent basis for expatriates and murmur patients is in force in every passport office in Bangladesh. Most of the people of Chittagong are working in different parts of the world. If they come to Chittagong to get expired MRP passports and give proper instructions to the Chandgaon (Panchlaish) passport office, if the government stops issuing MRP passports, they should be informed through the official gazette.
Journalist Kamal Uddin told The Crime that he demanded that Chandgaon (Panchlaish) passport office be corruption-free and protect expatriates from harassment in the case of MRP passport issue, besides investigating our complaints through high-ranking officials of the government to ensure punishment against criminals.
