{"id":129034,"date":"2026-11-13T17:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T11:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/?p=129034"},"modified":"2026-11-13T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T11:38:29","slug":"passport-department-to-remain-open-on-chhath-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/11\/13\/129034\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport Department to remain open on Chhath festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p> <strong>Passport Department will remain open even on the day of Chhath festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Kathmandu. Although Monday is a public holiday on the occasion of Chhath festival, the Passport Department will remain open. <\/p>\n<p> Deepak Bishwakarma, Director General of the Department of Passport, said that the decision has been made to operate regular services on the day of Chhath festival keeping in mind the convenience of the service seekers. According to Director General Bishwakarma, the department will provide passport related services to the service seekers from 9 am to 4 pm on other regular working days. He said that the department has been kept open even on festival days so that the service seekers do not face any inconvenience in getting passport service due to public holidays. The department has given a holiday on Monday to its employees who are celebrating the Chhath festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passport Department will remain open even on the day of Chhath festival Kathmandu. Although Monday is a public holiday on the occasion of Chhath festival, the Passport Department will remain open. Deepak Bishwakarma, Director General of the Department of Passport, said that the decision has been made to operate regular services on the day of<a href=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/11\/13\/129034\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Passport Department to remain open on Chhath festival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":128976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo-2_fa81d391-scaled.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129035,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129034\/revisions\/129035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/128976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}