External Affairs Ministry has done away with the printing of the last page of the passport. However, the existing passports will continue to remain valid till the date of expiry printed in the passport booklet. <br/><br/>The decision is based on the recommendations of a three-member Committee comprising officials of the Ministries of External Affairs and Women and Child Development. <br/><br/>The committee was constituted to examine various issues pertaining to passport applications where mother and child had insisted that the name of the father should not be mentioned in the passport and also relating to passport issues to children with single parent and to adopted children. <br/><br/>Responding to a media query, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said the Ministry has examined the recommendation of the Committee and the guidelines of the International Civil Aviation Organization regarding Machine Readable Travel Documents and decided that the last page of the passport and other travel documents would no longer be printed. <br/><br/>The last page contains information such the name of the Father, Mother, Spouse, Address, Emigration Check Required and old passport number with date and place of issue of the holder of the passport. <br/><br/>Mr Kumar said, the Indian Security Press, Nasik, will be designing the new passport booklets in due course and till new passport booklets are made available to the Ministry, the passports and other travel documents will continue to be printed with the last page.