External Affairs minister S Jaishankar at the Cabinet briefing: "I would like to felicitate all our passport issuing authorities in India and abroad on Passport Sewa Diwas and and I'm sure, you all appreciate we're meeting under unique circumstances. I acknowledge how well all of you have responded to changing public requirements amid Covid. We intend to open Post Office Passport Seva Kendras in every Lok Sabha constituency where no PSK exist today. We've so far been able to provide for 488 Lok Sabha constituencies. This process which we were going forward with very ambitiously, stopped momentarily due to COVID-19."