Registration date extends for travel agents up to January 31, 2014
Author(s): City Air NewsChandigarh, January 14, 2014: Punjab Government has extended the date of registration for Travel Agents by January 31, 2014 under the Punjab Prevention of Human Smuggling Act. It is mentioned that earlier the date...
Chandigarh, January 14, 2014: Punjab Government has extended the date of registration for Travel Agents by January 31, 2014 under the Punjab Prevention of Human Smuggling Act. It is mentioned that earlier the date was December 31, 2013. This extension is made with the demand of the travel agents associations during meeting on January 9, 2014.
Disclosing this here today, Principal Secretary Home D.S. Bains said that directions have been issued to the Deputy Commissioners to keep a tab on the illegal activities of many unscrupulous Travel Agents working unregistered, exploiting many innocent people of the state. To prevent these ongoing mal-practices, the Government has passed the Punjab Prevention of Human Smuggling Act with a view to checking and curbing their illegal/fraudulent activities and malpractices. Under the Act,. Travel Agents or Emigration Consultants or Ticketing Agents have got to be registered.
He further said that the Act and Rules framed have been uploaded on the website www.punjabgovt.gov.in. He also asked the DCS to ensure that each license would have to bear a unique number to be quoted by the licensees. // punjab news live, punjab news online, punjab news, punjab news headlines, punjab breaking news, india news, punjab news,