By IRNA,
New Delhi : India’s Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram Wednesday said: “The govt proposes to ease visa rules for visitors from Bangladesh.
In a reply in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian Parliament), Chidambaram said that there is a proposal to relax the procedure relating to grant of conference visa to Bangladeshi citizens. The matter is under consideration.
Answering questions, he said the categories of visitors for whom visas may be relaxed include professionals regularly visiting India and requiring longer stay than one year in rare and exceptional cases.
Visa on medical grounds including for those accompanying attendants and relatives, may also be eased, Chidambaram said.
As for Indians visiting Bangladesh, he said the visa regime is reciprocal.