Under their noses

IN Media Watch Briefs | 22/06/2012

On June 17 Mail Today frontpaged an investigative story 'virtual passport for touts' on problems being faced in the new online passport seva started by MEA (outsourced to TCS). On June 19 the Times of India followed up, with a similar story. No problems with that, except that the new passport office at ITO is right on Fleet Street and passport seekers have been facing problems for several weeks. How come none of the journos from ToI and other papers who pass by this place every day could smell a story in the crowds visible at the new offices? The Old Lady of Bahadurshah Jafar Marg woke up only after a non-Fleet Street paper broke the story.

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