The United Kingdom is among 36 new countries to be added to India’s electronic visa or e-visa system from Independence Day. The e-visa route will allow British nationals flying to India for tourism and recreational purposes to apply and pay for their visa online and carry a printout as proof. According to UK Foreign Office estimates, over 800,000 British nationals visit India every year. With this addition, the total count of countries under the scheme will go up to 113.
Besides some of the main hubs of New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, additional airports offering the e-visa facility will include Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Gaya, Jaipur, Lucknow, Trichy and Varanasi. E-visa applicants will be expected to apply online a minimum of four days before the date of travel and the cost of the visa is around $60 with a validity of 30 days from the date of arrival in India.
- The United Kingdom is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each country has its own system of administration.
- The Queen of the UK is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface.
- Concentration camps were first used by the British during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
- Centenarians are the fastest-growing demographic in the UK.
- The UK is the first country in the world to allow the creation of babies from the DNA of three people
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