{"id":22066,"date":"2017-02-17T06:56:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T06:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=22066"},"modified":"2017-02-17T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T09:43:09","slug":"pre-loaded-sim-card-tourists-e-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/pre-loaded-sim-card-tourists-e-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-loaded SIM Card for Tourists with E-Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: What does SIM stand for in context to a mobile phone?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Subscriber Identity Module<br \/>\n(b) System Identity Metric<br \/>\n(c) Shared Identity Module<br \/>\n(d) None of the Above.<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:(a)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 15th February, 2017, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India launched the initiative for providing pre-loaded SIM Card to foreign tourists arriving in India on e-Visa.<\/li>\n<li>This initiative has been launched in association with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited. BSNL would distribute pre-loaded SIM Cards to foreign tourists arriving in India on e-Visa.<\/li>\n<li>This facility will be initially available at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (Terminal-3), New Delhi and later cover remaining 15 international airports.<\/li>\n<li>This unique initiative will facilitate the foreign tourists in communicating with their acquaintances immediately after their arrival in India.<\/li>\n<li>To avail pre-loaded SIM Card, BSNL will collect e-Visa copy and the first page of passport from foreign tourists on arrival at the airport. This facility is only available for tourists arriving in India on e-Visa.<\/li>\n<li>SIM cards will be pre-loaded with a value of Rs. 50 talk time and 50 MB data and will be activated immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier, the Ministry of Tourism had also launched a 24 x 7 Tourist Helpline 1800111363 in twelve foreign languages so that the foreign tourists can get the required information in their own language.<\/li>\n<li>It is to be noted that SIM stands for Subscriber Identity Module. It contains subscriber information. It is used to identify and authenticate subscribers on mobile telephony devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=158477\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=158477<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/hindirelease.aspx?relid=59571\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/hindirelease.aspx?relid=59571<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What does SIM stand for in context to a mobile phone? (a) Subscriber Identity Module (b) System Identity Metric (c) Shared Identity Module (d) None of the Above. Ans:(a) On 15th February, 2017, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India launched the initiative for providing pre-loaded SIM Card to foreign tourists arriving in India on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[2497],"class_list":["post-22066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pp","tag-planning-project-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}