Chennai: Mr Pramothes Mukherjee, Member of Parliament and alternate convenor of the five-member Parliamentary Study Group, recently inaugurated a Passport Tele-enquiry System at NIC computer centre located at the Regional Passport Office, Chennai. The Tele-enquiry System provides information on the status of application for passport to the applicants without any manual assistance. All that the applicant has to do is dial the telephone number provided in the receipt of the application form. The call is answered by the Tele-enquiry System. The System prompts the applicant to dial-in his key number. After the applicant does the needful, the System checks for validity and fetches details of the status of the application from the host database and conveys the same to the applicant.