Notified points of entry

The consignments of plants/plant material for consumption shall be permitted import through the entry points notified vide Schedule-I, Schedule-II and Schedule-III of Plant Quarantine (Regulation of Import into India) Order, 2003. The import of seeds, plants, cuttings, bulbs and other planting materials for propagation purpose are permitted to import only through Regional Plant Quarantine Stations of Amritsar, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and National Plant Quarantine Station, New Delhi.

The port of entry through Alleppey (Kerala), Cuddalore (Tamil Nadu), Goa (Goa), Gopalpur (Orissa), Jamnagar (Gujarat), Beypore (Kerala), Karwar (Karnataka), Krishnapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Machlipatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Nagapatnam (Tamil Nadu), Navlakhi (Gujarat), Okha (Gujarat), Porbander (Gujarat), Veraval (Gujarat) is permitted only for import of consignments of food grains by Food Corporation of India.

All the regulated articles such as live insects, microbial cultures, bio-control agents and soil, earth, clay and similar material for microbiological, soil mechanics or mineralogical investigations and peat for horticultural purposes shall only be imported into India through Regional Plant Quarantine Stations at Amritsar, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi as per the provisions under Clause 3(14) of PQ Order, 2003.

Import of Transgenic/ Germplasm/ Genetically Modified Organisms shall be permitted only through New Delhi Airport as per the provisions under Clause 3(14) of PQ Order, 2003.