On their website, the Indian Visa Application Centre, to the shock of its applicants, said that the next date would be communicated through an SMS and passports in this regard should be collected the next working day.
All the Indian visa application centres in the violence in Bangladesh will be closed down Indefinitely as the situation remains uncertain after about protests to remove Sheikh Hasina as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and she had to flee to India this week.
The Indian Visa Application Centre, at their website stated that the next date would be communicated through an SMS and that passports to be collected the following working day.
The centres which are involved in the process of Indian visa applications are going to be shut down indefinitely mainly because of the unrest that is currently prevailing.
The next application date will be communicated through a text message and it is advised to come and collect the passport the following working day – the notice stated.
This came following the union’s induction of 190 non-essential officials of the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, who have been evacuated from Bangladesh along their families after the ousting of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on Monday, as was revealed by informed sources. But, all the diplomats are still in Bangladesh and the missions are open, so said the sources.
Other than the High Commission in Dhaka, the India has its assistant high commissions or consulates in Chittagong, Rajshahi, Khulna and Sylhet.
Since June, people mainly students demonstrating for a cancelled job quota system which provided thirty percent jobs for the families of the freedom fighters of the Liberation War of 1971. Police forces challenged such protests, which started off as non-violent, and suppressed the protesters.
