Several countries have eased Covid-19 travel restrictions for Indian students: Govt

New Delhi: Travel restrictions are being relaxed for Indian students in several countries like the US, Canada, the UK, Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Georgia, Germany etc., the Union Government informed on Thursday, as per a PTI report. It added that more nations are expected to do the same as the Covid-19 situation improves.

As a reply to the question, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan told Rajya Sabha that the government is making serious efforts in easing the travel restrictions for Indian students studying in foreign universities.

He said that the government's missions abroad had been actively taking up these issues to the respective governments and impressing them to ease the travel restrictions. The issue has been taken to ministerial level with several countries, he said.

Muraleedharan further said that the welfare of Indians abroad, including students, is the government's top priority. When asked about tackling the pandemic, he said that the government had been focused on fighting Covid-19 and alleviating its effects. The country is facing a crisis with national and international cooperation. He said there had been more than one wave of the disease due to the virus' mutation.

Many countries had imposed travel restrictions for people from India after the country got hit by the severe and destructive second wave of Covid-19.