Indian embassy receives 150 duplicate passports in recall

Hi Guys
just to warn you that i called up the ICC (indian cultural centre)
today and they advised to get the passports changed at the earliest or
you may face trouble traveling overseas.

Indian embassy has given notification to other embassies and
immigration departments.
so if your passport numbers fall under the category mentioned below,
PLEASE CHANGE THEM FAST. its free of cost or if you want to get them
changed in a day then you will have to pay a fee of QR 312.00
Indian embassy receives 150 duplicate passports in recall
Web posted at: 5/13/2008 3:15:18
Source ::: The Peninsula / by Huda N V
DOHA • So far around 150 Z-series Indian passports have been received
at the Indian Embassy since the recall was announced earlier this
month.
In 2006, the Indian Security Press had inadvertently issued a "repeat"
of an earlier series printed in 1995. Due to this duplication, holders
of passports with those numbers were facing a lot of problems at
immigration counters. The Indian government recently announced the
recall of all these booklets and decided to issue new passports to
their holders without any charge.
"The 150 Z-series passports we traced are from residents in Qatar. We
are not sure if they were issued from Doha itself. Action is being
taken to reissue new ones," Sanjiv Kohli, Minister of Political and
Commercial, told The Peninsula. The passport numbers range from
Z-000001 to Z-045925.
Earlier this month, Indian Embassy has started issuing passports with
enhanced security systems. The new passports will have a
holder-specific bar-coding system, an official said.
The embassy has already started issuing machine printed passports
instead of the hand written one. The passport will contain scanned
photo of the holder rather than the pasted one, so as to cut down
forgery. Each of the new passports will have a unique barcode which
will differ according to the holders.
"The new system of bar-coding and scanning photos will prevent people
from tampering the passports and there by reducing forgery," said
Kohli.
The peninsula