In order to make the arrival process easier for international passengers entering India, the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) has launched an online portal, which is already live now. This portal will facilitate inbound passengers to file their mandatory self-declaration forms and applications for exemption from mandatory institutional quarantine.
DIAL, in its official statement, stated that the portal would help make passengers’ journey contactless as they won’t have to fill physical copies of a self-declaration form and a quarantine exemption form at the time of arrival in India.
Reportedly, as per the government’s guidelines, five categories of passengers have been exempt from the mandatory seven-day institutional quarantine, i.e., pregnant women, those suffering from serious illness, who have suffered a death in the family, those who have a COVID-19 negative certificate from a test done 96 hour prior to the journey and parents accompanying children below 10.
Those seeking exemption under the specific five categories will need to fill the e-form available on the website of Delhi airport at least 72 hours before boarding.
Passengers, who have been exempted or allowed the exemption, should bear in mind that they will need to undergo 14-day home quarantine. Further, all other international passengers arriving in India will have to follow the usual process of undergoing mandatory seven-day institutional quarantine at their own cost, which will be followed by seven days of home quarantine.
As per the statement released by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, it stated that this process will help passengers to avoid the hassle of providing the same set of documents and information to different authorities multiple times as the online portal will have an option to autofill the second application using the previous application’s request number.
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