Making a passport in Bangalore

Online passport can help you get passport within 20 days( I made 3 and got them delivered within 20 days), the only bottleneck is Police Verification. For me the fastest was 14 days.

So no need to fighting for Tatkal and spending extra 1.5k or 1k amount

1] Birth Certificate or if you are born before 1989 you need 10th or 12th Marksheet or TC

2] Address Proof: The best one is Bank Statement for 1 year (both public and private bank should work, mine was ICICI, check the passport portal for documents required: http://passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/docAdvisor/attachmentAdvisorInp ), you can update your current address in bank if its different and then get bank certificate for the same.
Note: if you are making it for your spouse, you can add him/her to your account which has been there for more than 1 year. Get a joint account certificate from the bank
Note: This is the address where Police verification will happen, the police person will come here to check, so make sure you are updating the bank with proper address that you wish to give in passport

3] Go to https://portal2.passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/welcomeLink

4] Register, download the e-form, upload it

5] the form will ask you for the police station(this dictates your Police verification step) and some references

6] make sure you remember the secret question and answer you used to create account

--The account asks for changing password after 1 month and secret question/asnwer is must

7] If there is a mistake in eform filling, do not worry you can upload a new form, one account supports 3 forms, it can be for the same person

8] Book an appointment, window starts at 6 PM and ends within 5 mins

9] Do not worry if you do not get your appointment booked, just get used to the site and optimize your speed

10] Do 2-3 test pass of the whole appointment booking steps, will help if before you actually start the appointment booing at 6 PM in the evening

11] Login at 6:01, sometimes passport site clock disallows booking so safer to start at 6:01

12] I was able to book 3 appointments in total 6 attempts

13] Hint: Between you can create multiple accounts and try for each one with the same form uploaded, increases your chances to get an appointment, Both of you should try for different time periods

--In my case me and my wife and one of my friend tried at the same time

---Before you start for passport office--

1) Get 2 copies of every proof and 2-3 blank sheets
-- note: take 2 copies of your bank statement too

2)  have a 2 passport sized photo ready - this is not needed in passport office but needed when Police comes at your place for verification

--Appointment Day--

1] Separate out originals and copies, so its easier, if you have VISA stamped on your old passport get copy of that page too

2] There are 3 steps - A, B, C, it takes easily 2 Hours to complete all 3, so plan accordingly for food, they do serve snacks in passport office

3] There is a Xerox center in the passport office too, just in case you fall short of copies.

--Police Verification--

1] Two Photos and 1 copy of each proof is needed after your application gets approved in passport office by the Police person

2] Do not worry if you missed police verification at home, you can go to the nearest Police Station which you had added in your e-form and check with them

3] Once the Police verification is done it takes 10 days to get the passport.

You can check the passport status online in the portal itself, you will get an email/sms when the passport gets dispatched. If the Post office guy misses you, you can go to Post office to collect your passport, Always best to leave a note outside your house when you expect a courier or Police verification

In general police verification happens within 2-4 days of your successful application completion in passport office.

Best luck.