Acharya Chanakya, The First Person Who Gave Us The Concept Of Passport System

 



The superintendent of passports shall issue passes at the rate of a māsa per pass. Whoever is provided with a pass shall be at liberty to enter into or go out of, the country. Whoever, being a native of the country, enters into or goes out of the country without a pass fined 12 panas. He shall be punished with the first amercement for producing a false pass. A foreigner guilty of the same offence shall be punished with the highest amercement.

The superintendent of pasture lands shall examine passes.
Pasture grounds shall be opened between any two dangerous places.
Valleys shall be cleared from the fear of thieves, elephants, and other beasts.
In barren tracts of the country, there shall be constructed not only tanks,
buildings for shelter, and wells, but also flower gardens and fruit gardens.
Hunters with their hounds shall reconnoitre forests. At the approach of thieves or enemies, they shall so hide themselves by ascending trees or mountains as to escape from the thieves, and blow conch shells or beat drums. As to the movements of enemies or wild tribes, they may send information by flying the pigeons of royal household with passes (mudra) or causing fire and smoke at Successive distances.
It shall be his duty to protect timber and elephant forests, to keep roads in good repair, to arrest thieves, to secure the safety of mercantile traffic, to protect cows, and to conduct the transaction of the people. (Arthashastra 2.34)

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