Passport is a document meant to ‘regulate the departure from India of citizens of India’: MEA spokesperson
Less than 8% of Indian citizens hold a passport, says Randhir Jaiswal; the response came weeks after a government official referred to the Indian passport as a “travel document” and said that it is not a “citizenship document”.
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