Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced a raft of measures aimed at making it easier for non-residents Indians (NRI) visiting India, as he spoke to a large crowd of cheering people of Indian origin in New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Modi said holders of Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) cards will henceforth get lifetime Indian visas; NRIs who stay in India over a long period of time will no longer have to report regularly to police stations; and the PIO and Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) cards will be merged into one in order to do away with difficulties arising from the differences in these cards.

In addition, US citizens will be granted long-term tourist visas and visas on arrival in India, he added.

Elsewhere, during his over-one-hour-long speech, Modi borrowed a key phrase from Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech. “I have a dream,” said Modi in Hindi. His dream, he said, was that in the 75th year of India’s independence, in 2022, every Indian family will have a house to live in.


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