new delhi citizens from china the united kingdom spain france italy and malaysia will soon be able to get online visas to india expanding the number of countries that can avail this facility to 50 india had introduced electronic visa for 44 countries in november last year the six countries recommended by the ministry to the department of home affairs for issuance of evisa are china the uk spain france italy and malaysia tourism secretary lalit panwar said he was speaking at the india heritage tourism conclave by phd chamber of commerce and industry on friday countries that already have the electronic visa authorization or online visa facility include the us australia japan israel germany and russiaread also govt launches evisa for 43 countries india has already issued 65000 evisas in the last 75 days and on an average 1000 electronic visa authorizations are being issued a day there was a 4216 jump in tourist arrivals during december 2014 compared to the previous year india had issued 2700 visas in december 2013 whereas the number of etas issued during december 2014 was 14083 online visa facility is applicable for visitors traveling to india for recreation short duration medical treatment and business visit for a stay of 30 days it is available at nine airports including delhi mumbai bengaluru chennai kochi goa hyderabad kolkata and thiruvanathapuram panwar also spoke about expecting a windfall bonanza on budget allocations for the tourism sector as it was categorized as a priority developmental sector for the economy by pm narendra modi the tourism ministry has been consistently pitching for higher allocations with the finance ministry to protect preserve promote and restore its rich heritage of over 5000 years of indian history and indications are suitably impressive and therefore the aspirations and expectations of the tourism ministry have already enlivened so that with the higher allocations the tourism ministry is able to implement the prime ministers vision for developing its tourism and heritage panwar said