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Kathmandu: With a view to render services closer to the service seekers, the Embassy of Nepal in Ottawa conducted mobile consular and passport camp in Toronto on 16-17 November where close to 400 people received passports and other consular related services from the camp, embassy of Nepal in Ottawa said.

The program is part of the effort by the Embassy to bring services to different cities of Canada with significant number of Nepali diaspora. “The effort has been well received by the service seekers in the Nepali diaspora community as it creates great convenience to them living different parts of this geographically vast country,” the embassy said.

This is the third such mobile consular camp in Greater Toronto Area (GTA) alone organized by the Embassy in past one year. GTA hosts largest concentration of Nepali diaspora in Canada.

Besides, the Embassy had also conducted similar mobile consular/passport camps in Edmonton, Vancouver, Halifax, and Calgary in past six months. “The Embassy plans to conduct more such mobile camps in the future in different cities of Canada where there is significant number of service seekers,” the embassy further said.

The mobile camp in Toronto this time was conducted in collaboration with the Department of Passports, Honorary Consulate of Nepal in Toronto, NRNA NCC Canada, and other community organizations in GTA.