Friday, September 28, 2018

Ahmedabad trip

Must see places:
1. Kankariya lake - 2/3 hours required - many attractions for kids - do checkout Kid City in there.
2. Science city - 3/4 hours - quite good - has many working models and demonstrations.
3. Gandhi Ashram - 1/2 hours - very informative and peaceful.
4. Akshardam temple - 1/2 hours - okayish
5. The Green House - very nice restaurant. Great food.

Passport renewal for 6 year old in Madhapur, Hyderabad

1. Living in Madhapur
2. Selected PSK: Toli Chowki
3. While filling the form online select District = Cyberabad-1 and then police station as Madhapur
4. There is car parking available at the PSK, Rs. 30 per hour.
5. Documents required - 
  A. Both parents' passports (I am not sure if one parent's passport will work - ideally it should)
  B. Old passport of the kid 
  C. Annexure 'D' (available online), on this link you can fill/edit online
  D. One parent's address proof - I gave photo passbook by ICICI Bank (yes they give you that if you ask!!)
  E. Take one XEROX of all documents and sign all of them.

That's it. It should work out smoothly with these things. Aadhar not mandatory here.

Edit 1: I got it on 3rd Oct evening(applied on 28 Sep) - so 3 working days in total - quite fast.
Edit 2: I also got the passport cover ( I had paid 600/- for it at PSK) - it's useless. You can get much better and cheaper ones online. So, don't opt for passport cover at PSK - no use.