Sri Lanka, Feb. 5 -- The Cabinet of Ministers has greenlighted the supplying of additional staff required for accelerating the printing of passports.

Speaking during today's (05) Cabinet press conference, the Cabinet Spokesman, Minister Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa stated that as per the recommendations of the experts' committee appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers to submit recommendations on the actions to be taken for circumventing the shortage of passports, the procurement process has already been started to supply 1,100,000 empty passports with "P" category chip from the supplier.

Accordingly, a programme has been planned to issue 4,000 passports per day by facilitating the operations of the Department of Emigration and Immigration throu...