I am Kaushik Mandal, from Kolkata; working in Eastern Railway. I wanted to apply for passport several years ago but they administration did not provided me a permission, saying passport is for visiting any country. Actually I have heard that either the administration certifies the application which exempts the applicant from any sort of police verification, or the administration issues an NOC but in this case, police verification will take place. They suggested me to fill the space for intending to visit a country with any name of a country, then they will consider but I refused to take any such illicit measure. The thing is that they hardly reply in black & white rather call the employee to the office to talk verbally. So they refused to give me the permission. I know many a people who apply and successfully obtain passports resorting to such unlawful measure but I want to take a straight forward path. I have heard that nowadays permission is not necessary for applying for passports, one can notify the administration after applying for the same. Actually I specifically need the passport for my wife’s sake; she is from a foreign land and she wants to apply for an OCI Card and for that a passport is mandatory. The railway administration did not accept our marriage previously, rather one employee even hurled insult both to my wife and me in written, so my wife asked me not to take such an insult for mere enlistment of her name in my service record. So I want to know if I can apply for the passport without seeking any sort of permission from the authority and later intimate about my application formally. Please guide.