{"id":9471,"date":"2016-02-29T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=9471"},"modified":"2016-02-29T16:07:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:07:31","slug":"extension-of-e-tourist-visa-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/extension-of-e-tourist-visa-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Extension of e-Tourist Visa scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently the e-Tourist Visa facility is extended to how many more countries?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 38<br \/>\n(b) 37<br \/>\n(c) 28<br \/>\n(d) 25<br \/>\n<strong>Ans (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>According to release issued by Minstry Of Home Affairs, on 25 February 2016 the e-Tourist Visa (e-TV) facility hes been extended to 37 more countriesfrom 26 February 2016.<\/li>\n<li>The total count of countries under the scheme has become 150.<\/li>\n<li>The new 37 countries included in e-Tourist Visa scheme are Albania, Austria, Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, Comoros, Cote d&#8217;lvoire, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Iceland, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Moldova, Namibia, Romania, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Trinidad &amp; Tobago, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<\/li>\n<li>Government of India had launched the e-TV facility on November 27, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>16 Indian airports are designated for providing e-Tourist visa service.<\/li>\n<li>Since the launch of the scheme more than 7.50 lakh Visas have been issued under the scheme.<\/li>\n<li>At present on an average 3,500 e-Tourist Visas are being granted daily to foreign nationals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=136761\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=136761<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently the e-Tourist Visa facility is extended to how many more countries? (a) 38 (b) 37 (c) 28 (d) 25 Ans (b) Related facts: According to release issued by Minstry Of Home Affairs, on 25 February 2016 the e-Tourist Visa (e-TV) facility hes been extended to 37 more countriesfrom 26 February 2016. The total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9471","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9471\/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\/9444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9471"}],"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=9471"},{"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=9471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}