2.5 million tourists visited India in 2018 availing e-Visa. The facility now covers 166 countries and foreigners can obtain online visa within 72 hours for travel related to tourism, business, health, medical attendant and conferences.
India’s Visa Regime has been overhauled during the last two years by making it simpler to understand and administer.
The scope of tourist visa has been expanded by including activities like short-term, unstructured courses (up to six months duration) on local languages, music, dance, arts and crafts, cooking, and medicine. Voluntary work up to one month has also now been allowed under tourist visa.