{"id":35952,"date":"2018-11-01T12:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35952"},"modified":"2018-11-01T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:06:48","slug":"rcep-boost-for-india-on-easier-visa-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rcep-boost-for-india-on-easier-visa-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"RCEP: Boost for India on easier visa norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-business\/rcep-boost-for-india-on-easier-visa-norms\/article19367395.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RCEP: Boost for India on easier visa norms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Negotiations on easier visa norms<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s push for easier norms on movement of professionals across borders for short-term work in 16 Asia-Pacific nations, including itself, under a proposed mega Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is learnt to have found favour with some ASEAN-bloc members.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Negotiations<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposed FTA, officially known as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), is being negotiated by these countries in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The RCEP technical level talks are currently being held in Hyderabad.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A handful of ASEAN countries are also assumed to be supporting India\u2019s proposal for an RCEP Travel Card to facilitate visa-free multiple short-term entry across the RCEP region for business and tourism purposes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australia and New Zealand (who are RCEP members) are blocking the move.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India carrying a vast pool of services professionals, including from IT\/ITeS, sector, had been leading the talks on easing restrictions on temporary movement of professionals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many RCEP member nations fears that it would lead to migration of professionals from India and loss of jobs for locals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India asserts that its demands on temporary movement of professionals and skilled workers should not be confused with permanent movement (or immigration).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian information technology industry body Nasscom informed the RCEP trade negotiators that the Indian IT-ITeS sector had supported 4.54 lakh jobs in the RCEP region (excluding India).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCEP: Boost for India on easier visa norms Negotiations on easier visa norms Context India\u2019s push for easier norms on movement of professionals across borders for short-term work in 16 Asia-Pacific nations, including itself, under a proposed mega Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is learnt to have found favour with some ASEAN-bloc members. Negotiations The proposed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rcep-boost-for-india-on-easier-visa-norms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RCEP: Boost for India on easier visa norms<\/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-35952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704771621},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35952","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=35952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}