Tag: North Sentinel Island
Efforts are intact for boosting tourism in Andamans
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands hopes to keep tourism to move on, despite the alleged killing of the US national by aboriginal tribals on North Sentinel Island. MHA is planning to further liberalize e-visa for foreign visitors intending to go to the islands. As per a senior MHA official, after lifting the Restricted Area Permit (RAP) tag from 29 islands, including North Sentinel Island where the incident took place, the government is now looking at further liberalizing the e-visa system by ‘embedding in it the automatic permission to foreign tourists to visit the islands’, ... Read more