Google has requested Indian government to expand its Street View services for the major places in India. This application is targeted at Tourist who are new to the region and can easily access the famous and large territories with Google Street View. Although the Street View already features some tourist sites such as the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, the Qutub Minar, the Varanasi river bank, the Nalanda University, the Mysore Palace, and the Thanjavur temple Chinnaswamy stadium, yet it is not allowed to add further locations to it.

India will not permit Google to continue Street View Business.

The Government while explaining the reason of rejection said that this was decided after the detailed analysis by the security agencies and Ministry of Defense. As per officials the Google Street View is against the security concerns of Indian government.

“Security establishment got wary of allowing such image-capturing given that planning for the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai is believed to have involved photographic reconnaissance of targets by Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley.”

India is not the first country to reject Google Street View Proposal, Austria has shown concern over security once they were offered for Street View Business. Although it lifted ban for Google last year yet Google has shown no interest to reconsider this option.