Vande Bharat Mission: 244 Indian expats from Washington DC depart for Delhi

A special Air India flight carrying 244 passengers from Washington DC departed for New Delhi under Government’s ‘Vande Bharat Mission’ on Wednesday. After landing in national capital, flight is scheduled to fly to Hyderab.

Anuncing departure, Indian Ambassor to United Stated Taranjit Singh Sandhu said this was fourth expatriation flight from US, under first phase of Vande Bharat mission.

"This is fourth flight to depart from US, we will have 3 more flights in 1st phase. We are expecting 2nd phase to begin in which re will be 7 flights & reafter we'll see what is requirement. To date, we have request of almost 28,000 people," Taranjit Singh Sandhu, India's Ambassor to United States tweeted.

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Citizens brought back under Vande Bharat Mission

Several or flights were operated to bring back Indian nationals under India's largest-ever repatriation initiative amid coronavirus-induced lockdown. As many as 234 citizens were brought back to Indore from Kuwait in two aircraft of Kuwait Airlines carrying 117 passengers each on one plane. Ar Air India special flight landed at Amritsar International Airport from Dubai with 178 passengers.

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ditionally, a passenger flight carrying 177 Indians from Kuwait landed at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedab. flight reached Ahmedab via Mumbai. A total of 2,574 more Indians have returned to country on 12 flights from eight different places, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday evening.

India began phased repatriation of its citizens stranded abro from May 7 under Vande Bharat Mission. second phase of Vande Bharat Mission will be launched from May 16-22 during which 149 flights, including feeder flights, will be operated to bring back Indians from 31 countries. government anunced it will bring back 14,800 Indians on 64 flights.

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(With inputs from ANI; Im credits: PTI)