Bhubaneswar, February 21: A Visa Application centre will be opened in Bhubaneswar on April 1 on the occasion of Utkal Divas - the foundation day of Odisha, informed Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday.
The Union Minister had written to External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar and also met VFS Global CEO Zubin Karkaria requesting them to take measures in opening a Visa Application centre in Bhubaneswar.
Taking to ‘X’, the Union Minister Pradhan, who hails from Odisha, expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, EAM Dr. Sa Jaishankar and VFS Global CEO Zubin Karkaria for accepting his proposal.
“Delighted to announce that @VFSGlobal is opening a visa application centre in Bhubaneswar from 1st April’ 26,” wrote Pradhan.
“The centre was much-needed in Bhubaneswar for providing world-class, convenient, time-effective and efficient visa facilitation services to people of Odisha who otherwise had to travel to Kolkata to meet their visa requirements. Commencement of visa facilitation from Bhubaneswar will save time and cost, boost international mobility and connectivity and also create local employment opportunities,” wrote Pradhan.
Maintaining that ease-of-living is the motto of PM Modi’s Government, he wrote “Grateful to EAM @DrSJaishankar and CEO, VFS Global Group, Mr. Zubin Karkaria for considering my request for operationalising a visa application centre in Bhubaneswar.”
