Date: 2 March 2013
India Proposes To Have Tourist Visa-on-arrival For
Malaysians.
NEW DELHI, March 2 (Bernama) - India's Tourism Ministry has
proposed extending the visa-on-arrival (VOA) facility to tourists of 16 more
countries, including Malaysia.
The facility is currently available to 11 countries, namely
Cambodia, Finland, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Luxembourg, Myanmar, New Zealand,
the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam.
The tourist VOA, which is being granted by immigration
Officers at the New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata airports, has a maximum
validity of 30 days with a single-entry facility.
The ministry strongly feels that the tourist VOA facility
for those countries which are potential source markets for India and where
there have been no security-related issues in the past or likely to be in the
future can be taken up under this scheme, Minister K. Chiranjeevi said. He has
submitted the proposal to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
The other potential countries besides Malaysia are Brazil,
Brunei, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Africa,
Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
The Ministry of Tourism has also proposed extending the
tourist VOA facility to more airports, namely Bodhgaya, Bengaluru, Goa,
Hyderabad, Kochi, and Thiruvananthapuram.
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