State Govt. orders people in home quarantine to send selfies every hour
Bengaluru: The state government has issued an order stating that all people in home quarantine must send selfies with their GPS coordinates every one hour to the government.
Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar said in a press release that every selfie sent by home-quarantine persons will be seen by a government photo-verification team. "If they fail to do so, they will be sent to mass quarantine centres," he added.
Selfie needs to be sent every one hour (except between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.), he said in the press release.
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Karnataka: Mobile Passport Seva van to operate in Kodagu from Apr 8 to 10
Bengaluru (PTI): A Mobile Passport Seva van will operate in Madikeri town of Kodagu district from April 8 to 10, offering on-the-spot passport services to applicants.
The van will operate at Gandhi Bhavana in Madikeri town under an initiative launched by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to take passport services to people in underserved areas by facilitating document verification and biometric data collection closer to their homes, the Regional Passport Office, Bengaluru, said in a statement.
Applicants may book appointments online at the Passport Seva portal under the normal scheme. After payment, they should select the 'mobile van' option while scheduling the appointment, it said.
