Indian government has decided to provide foreign tourists 60-days collective landing permits in India.

New Delhi, April 25/Nationalturk- In a step aimed at boosting foreign tourist arrival in the country, Indian government has decided to provide foreign tourists 60-days collective landing permits in India.

“According to the revised procedure, foreign tourists in groups of four or more arriving by air or sea and sponsored by Indian travel agencies approved by India’s Ministry of Tourism and with a pre-drawn itinerary may be granted collective landing permit for a period not exceeding 60 days,” an official spokesman said.

He said the landing permit will have multiple entry facilities to enable the foreign tourists to visit neighbouring countries.

He said to avail of the facility, the tourists or travel agencies shall mandatorily fill in an application online.

“A complete list of members along with printed visa application and their itinerary should be submitted by the tourists or travel agencies to the Foreigner’s Regional Registration Office/Foreigner’s Registration office in Indian cities in  Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkatta, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Calicut, Goa and Lucknow 72 hours in advance,” he said.

‘No individual should drop out from the group’

The spokesman said tourists or travel agencies shall also give an undertaking to conduct the group as per the itinerary and extend a further assurance that no individual would be allowed to drop out from the group at any place.

He said Prime Minister’s Office has been monitoring the progress of visa simplification.

The Indian Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi had recently met country’s Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and sought simplification of visa procedure. The Home Minister had assured him that Ministry of Home Affairs would simplify visa procedures further.

While welcoming the initiative Chiranjeevi said, “This was a move forward and would go a long way towards boosting group travel to India, and would also give a boost to the tourism industry in the country”.

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Faiz Ahmad / NationalTurk India News

 

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