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| November 30, 2010 | Advance Passenger Information System at six airports | | New Delhi: Minister of State for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran said on Tuesday that Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) in Phase-I has been introduced at six international airports at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Cochin. In a written reply to a question in th Lok Sabha, Ramachandran stated that under APIS all airline operators flying into
India are required to provide passengers particulars electronically in the prescribed
format, within 15 minutes of their take off from the port outside India, in flat
file to the concerned immigration authorities in India. In Phase-II, APIS is
proposed to be implemented at all the 26 international airports in the country
in a centralized mode to facilitate the operationalisation of APIS at all the
international airports in the country. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has
undertaken the requisite action to put in place the network infrastructure. APIS
shall be implemented in a centralized mode across all the international airports
during the financial year 2011-12. The Government has introduced a "Tourist Visa-on-Arrival"
scheme for citizens of Finland , Japan , Luxembourg , New Zealand and Singapore
at four International airports in the country, viz. Delhi , Mumbai, Chennai and
Kolkata. The Stakeholder Ministries have been directed to improve the requisite
infrastructure or facilities for successful implementation of Tourist Visa-on-Arrival
scheme.
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