Govt plans operating 60 flights to bring back stranded Indians
New Delhi, May 5: India is planning to operate over 60 special flights in a week to bring back thousands of its citizens stranded across the world.
The operations will start from May 7, in phased manner. According to the flight plan of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), 64 flights will be sent to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Malaysia, the UK, Singapore, Bangladesh, the Philippines and the US to repatriate over 14,800 stranded Indians.
15 flights will be sent from Kerala- the maximum, followed by 11 each from Delhi-NCR and Tamil Nadu, seven from Maharashtra and Telangana, five from Gujarat, three each from Jammu and Kashmir and Karnataka and one each from Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
