The government is actively considering doing away with a provision, which requires international passengers to upload their COVID vaccine certificate or RT-PCR negative report on the Air Suvidha portal before flying to India.

However, the existing mandate of filling up a self-declaration form online on the portal will continue, official sources told.

“The Civil Aviation Ministry recently sought inputs from the Union Health Ministry for removing the provision which requires international passengers to upload the COVID-19 vaccine certificate or the RT-PCR negative report on the Air Suvidha portal citing inconvenience faced by travellers,” a source said.

“The health ministry has given its go ahead,” the source added. However, official confirmation on the same is still awaited from the Government of India.