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India posts 25 percent increase in visas on
arrival
Tuesday September 11, 2012 01:57:48 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A total of
9,412 visas on arrival (VoAs) were issued till August compared to
7,514 during corresponding period of 2011, registering a growth of
25.3 percent, an official said Tuesday.
According to the tourism ministry, 1,750 VoAs were issued in
August compared to 920 during August 2011, registering a growth of
90.2 percent.
As a facilitative measure to attract more foreign tourists to
India, the union government launched the VoAs scheme in January
2010 for citizens of five countries - Finland, Japan, Luxembourg,
New Zealand and Singapore - visiting India for tourism purposes.
This scheme was extended for the citizens of six more countries -
Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos and Myanmar - in
January 2011.
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