# UP passport offices plan special drive on October 10 2026-10-05T13:33:06+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet The Regional Passport Office (RPO), Lucknow, has launched a special outreach campaign called ‘Passport First, Opportunities Next’ to help young people obtain their first passport. As part of the initiative, a special passport drive will be held on October 10 at Passport Seva Kendras in Lucknow, Kanpur, Gorakhpur and Varanasi. The campaign targets students, trainees, research scholars, teachers and others from recognised educational and training institutions across Uttar Pradesh. Eligible applicants can book appointments from October 6 through the Passport Seva Portal. RPO Gyanveer Singh said the office has been working to improve accessibility and efficiency of passport services through citizen-centric initiatives, and urged all eligible applicants to use the special drive. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The drive removes one major hurdle for UP students eyeing study or work abroad: waiting for a passport before applying to programmes or jobs with tight deadlines. By holding the drive at only four cities, the RPO leaves out applicants from the rest of the state, who must still travel or wait for regular appointments. The campaign names no target number of applications, so its success will be measured by how many of the appointments booked from October 6 are actually processed on October 10. ## Coverage - timesofindia.indiatimes.com Straight announcement of a government initiative with no critical framing This brief was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Gyanveer Singh, Lucknow, regional passport office, Uttar Pradesh Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/up-passport-offices-plan-special-drive-on-october-10/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/up-passport-offices-plan-special-drive-on-october-10/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/