{"id":28016,"date":"2018-10-23T17:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28016"},"modified":"2018-10-23T17:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:06:59","slug":"access-to-andamans-eased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/access-to-andamans-eased\/","title":{"rendered":"Access to Andamans eased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/access-to-andamans-eased\/article24627284.ece\">Access to Andamans eased<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Recently, the Union Home Ministry decided to lift restrictions on foreigners to visit Andaman and Nicobar Islands chain.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>2. The step was taken to boost tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p>3. After lifting the restrictions, now foreigners can visit 29 inhabited islands without Restricted Areas Permit(RAP).<\/p>\n<p>4. The 29 inhabited islands have been excluded from the restricted area permit notified under the Foreigners (Restricted Areas) order, 1963, till Dec 31, 2022, subject to certain conditions.<\/p>\n<p><u>5. However, few countries are excluded from these restrictions such as: <\/u><\/p>\n<p>6. Citizens of Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan would continue to require RAP.<\/p>\n<p>7. For visiting Mayabunder and Diglipur, citizens of Myanmar will continue to require RAP, which shall be issued only with prior approval of the Ministry<\/p>\n<p>8. To protect the environment and marine resources without affecting tourism, the Union Territory will follow the guidelines of Environment and Forest Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>9. Separate approval of the competent authority would be required for visiting reserved forests, wildlife sanctuaries, and tribal reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to Andamans eased News: Recently, the Union Home Ministry decided to lift restrictions on foreigners to visit Andaman and Nicobar Islands chain. Important facts: 2. The step was taken to boost tourism sector. 3. After lifting the restrictions, now foreigners can visit 29 inhabited islands without Restricted Areas Permit(RAP). 4. The 29 inhabited islands&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/access-to-andamans-eased\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Access to Andamans eased<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704934160},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}