Jul

8

Passport fee and senior citizens

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Mr. K. Naqvi, a senior citizen, in his letter published in DAWN(July 01) write that there has been out of proportion increase in passport fee .He gives the history of increase in fee Rs. 10 before 1958, Rs. 25 in Ayub Khan’s time, Rs 200 in ZAB period and now as high as Rs. 2100. He requests the government to bring the passport fee down to Rs.200 as t was during Z A Bhutto’s rule.

The senior citizen forgot to mention that in Ayub Khan’s time a lecturers starting salary was Rs.300-350 and price of Atta was Rs.20 per maund (about 37 kg) and in ZAB’s time abut 5 maunds of Atta could have been bought. Now, find the proportion.
However the passport can be reduced for senior citizens only and if affordable by the government senior citizens can b totally exempted fro payment of fee.

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