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| Fredrick J. Kaplan, Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Consulate, Chennai, with parents and relatives of G.V. Loganathan at the U.S. Consulate in Chennai
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| INDIA
, 19-April-2007
3:38:5 AM |
| Nine family members of G.V. Loganathan, Viriginia Tech professor, who was among the 32 killed in Monday's shooting on the university campus, will leave for the United States in the early hours of Thursday.
The State Government, the U.S. Consulate in Chennai and the Regional Passport Office helped them to get flight tickets, visas and passports in record time.
The family, including his parents, will board a Lufthansa flight to Washington, from where they will be taken to Virginia by a chartered flight arranged by the university, G.V. Palanivel, Mr. Loganathan's brother, told The Hindu on Wednesday.
It took hardly an hour for the Regional Passport Office authorities here to issue passports to the family members under the Tatkal scheme.
Sumathi Ravichandran, Regional Passport Officer, Chennai, said the professor's father and mother — G.K.Vasudevan (78) and V. Kannammal (70) — brother, G.V. Sengottuvelavan (46), and sister-in-law, S. Sentamilselvi (36), did not have passports.
As a special gesture, the passport authorities waived the `Tatkal' fee.
All four were issued passports, which would be valid for the next 10 years.
The RPO authorities blocked tickets in two airlines on Wednesday night. Ms. Ravichandan said the State Government had announced that it would bear the airfare for all the nine members.
"On Tuesday evening, I spoke to the family members and told them about the papers to be submitted while applying for a passport.
They submitted the application around 10 a.m. and by 11 a.m. they got their passports," she said.
In the recent past, the passport office had not issued passports so fast, she added.
Normally, relatives who wished to go abroad for performing the final rites applied in the morning and got their passports in the evening.
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