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Passport figures: 8L Punjabis ready to travel abroad
The Morning Standard
|December 17, 2023
IF figures are an indication, it'd appear Punjabis have kept up their overseas craze.
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The Regional Passport Office in Chandigarh, which covers most of Punjab as well as Ambala in Haryana, has issued over 8 lakh passports from January to November this year. The count is 80,000 more than the previous year's in the same period.
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