{"id":79677,"date":"2020-02-07T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=79677"},"modified":"2020-02-07T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T11:00:53","slug":"india-not-to-impose-reciprocal-fee-on-bhutan-tourists-mea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/india-not-to-impose-reciprocal-fee-on-bhutan-tourists-mea\/","title":{"rendered":"India not to impose reciprocal fee on Bhutan tourists MEA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India will not adopt retaliatory provisions on Bhutan after it imposed a daily charge of about Rs 1,200 per visitor from July 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome ties are beyond reciprocity,\u201d said Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar on being asked about a pending Bill in Bhutan\u2019s Parliament that seeks to end free entry to tourists from the region, including Bangladesh and Maldives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kumar reasoned that Bhutan wanted to impose this cess, which it already levies from tourists from elsewhere in the world, to upgrade its tourist facilities in a sustainable manner. Till not long back, Indian diplomats had cited the free pass by Bhutan to Indians as proof of SAARC spirit that was observed by all countries barring Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MEA spokesperson said Bhutan had also said no Indian tourist would be inconvenienced by the new provision. Bhutan enjoys excellent ties with India, but is sensitive to the risk of unchecked tourism on its environment.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will not adopt retaliatory provisions on Bhutan after it imposed a daily charge of about Rs 1,200 per visitor from July 1. \u201cSome ties are beyond reciprocity,\u201d said Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar on being asked about a pending Bill in Bhutan\u2019s Parliament that seeks to end free entry to tourists from [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79679,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79677\/revisions\/79679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}