Which Indian visa sub-category covers medical treatment under AYUSH systems?

The correct answer is M-3. Under the rationalised Medical Visa framework, treatment under AYUSH systems is covered by the M-3 visa, while M-1 covers medical treatment other than AYUSH. Option A is therefore wrong: M-1 is the conventional treatment visa. Options B and D are the attendant visas rather than treatment visas, with M-2 granted to the attendant of an M-1 holder and M-4 to the attendant of an M-3 holder. Both M-1 and M-3, including their e-Visa variants, are granted for one year with multiple entries as the default option, which gives patients predictability when treatment needs repeat consultations, follow-up appointments or staged procedures. The government presents this arrangement as support for medical value tourism in line with the Heal in India vision, and medical value travel is one of the three arrivals that the whole rationalisation is meant to boost, along with foreign tourists and foreign students.