OCI cardholders require special permit if they want to undertake missionary, ‘Tabligh’ activities: MHA | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: All Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders are required to take special permission from the central authorities if they want to be concerned in any missionary, ‘Tabligh‘ or journalistic actions within the nation.
The OCI cardholders have parity with Indian nationals within the matter of tariffs in airfares in home sectors, entry charges for visiting nationwide parks, nationwide monuments and museums in India.
An official from the Union residence ministry stated these guidelines had been half of the ‘brochure’ printed by it in 2019 and had been just lately consolidated and notified.
The ministry, in its notification issued on Thursday, stated the OCI cardholders are entitled to get a number of entry lifelong visa for visiting India for any goal however “required to obtain a special permission or a special permit from the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer or the Indian Mission to undertake research and to undertake any missionary or Tabligh or mountaineering or journalistic activities”.
It can also be needed for OCI cardholders to take a special permit to undertake internship in any international diplomatic missions or international authorities organisations in India or to take up employment in any international diplomatic missions in India or to go to anywhere which falls throughout the protected or restricted or prohibited areas as notified by the central authorities or competent authority.
In March 2020, when the nationwide lockdown was in pressure following the coronavirus outbreak, over 2,500 Tablighi Jamaat members discovered to be residing on the organisation’s headquarters in Delhi regardless of tips and orders issued towards giant congregations of individuals.
As many as 233 international Tablighi staff had been arrested for violations of visa guidelines and lots of of them had been blacklisted, placing a ban on their future go to to India.
Tablighi Jamaat staff, each foreigners as nicely Indians, bask in preaching excursions throughout the nation also referred to as ‘Chilla’ during which a volunteer of the organisation travels for 120 days to numerous components of the nation and keep in native mosques the place they inform the neighbourhood individuals about their actions moreover holding special prayers.
The residence ministry stated the OCI cardholders are exempted from registration with the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO) or Foreigners Registration Officer (FRO) for any size of keep in India, however they have to inform the FRRO or FRO involved by way of e-mail at any time when there’s a change in everlasting residential deal with and of their occupation.
According to the notification, they have parity with Indian nationals within the matter of tariffs in air fares in home sectors in India, entry charges to be charged for visiting nationwide parks, wildlife sanctuaries, the nationwide monuments, historic websites and museums in India.
An OCI cardholder is a international nationwide holding a passport of a international nation and isn’t a citizen of India.
They have parity with Non-Resident Indians within the matter of inter-nation adoption of Indian youngsters topic to the compliance of the process as laid down by the competent authority, showing for the all India entrance exams resembling National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, Joint Entrance Examination (Mains), or different such exams to make them eligible for admission solely towards any Non-Resident Indian seat or any supernumerary seat, supplied that the OCI cardholder shall not be eligible for admission towards any seat reserved solely for Indian residents, the notification learn.
The OCI cardholders even have parity in buy or sale of immovable properties aside from agricultural land or farm home or plantation property and pursuing professions like docs, dentists, nurses and pharmacists in India as per the provisions contained within the relevant related statutes or legal guidelines