Over 5 Lakh Stranded Indians Brought Back Under Vande Bharat Mission
The undertaking concerned 860 Air India flights; 1256 constitution flights and eight Naval Ships.
New Delhi:
The Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) on Friday mentioned that over five lakh stranded Indians have returned safely to India from 137 nations beneath the Vande Bharat Project (VBM).
“The VBM operations commenced on Would possibly 7, 2020 and in lower than two months five,03,990 stranded Indians from 137 nations, together with from far off spaces, have returned to their properties. Taking into consideration that the preliminary goal to convey stranded Indians with compelling causes used to be simplest 2 lakh, it is a vital success,” MEA mentioned in a unencumber.
In line with the discharge, Kerala gained the biggest collection of stranded Indians (94,085), adopted by means of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.
The biggest collection of stranded Indians returned by means of VBM flights are from UAE (57,305), adopted by means of Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and USA and from Nepal (91,193) have returned via land border test posts, the Ministry mentioned.
The undertaking concerned 860 Air India flights; 1256 constitution flights and eight Naval Ships. The stranded Indians returned by means of Air India had been 1,64,121; Indian Army three,987 in eight ships from Maldives, Iran and Colombo; chartered flights – 2,30,832 and overseas carriers – three,969; about 60 air ambulances and 95,220 via land border check-posts from neighboring nations.
“This large operation used to be performed with the energetic enhance and cooperation of Indian Missions in another country, MoCA, MHA, MoHFW and State Governments. The MEA designated senior officials as State Coordinators had been at the leading edge of those operations making sure clean coordination in any respect ranges,” mentioned the MEA unencumber.
