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Carried out largest repatriation exercise during pandemic, says External Affairs Minister
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Carried out largest repatriation exercise during pandemic, says External Affairs Minister
External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Monday told the Rajya Sabha that the government wanted to expand the “air bubble” arrangement with more countries and the priority would be Saudi Arabia, Kuwait in the west and Japan, China and Singapore in the east.
“These are the countries where bubbles have not worked so well,” Mr. Jaishankar told the Rajya Sabha.
Under the air bubble scheme, commercial airlines from specific countries are allowed to travel to and from India on a limited basis an arrangement that was solely reserved for the Air India under the Vande Bharat mission as full scale international commercial air operations are yet to resume after COVID-19 restrictions were implemented last year.
Opposition praises govt efforts to bring back stranded Indians from abroad
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New Delhi, March 15 : The Opposition on Monday praised the government s efforts to bring back people who were stranded in the Gulf and other countries during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Congress leader Anand Sharma said, All the officials of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Indian missions abroad should be complimented for the work they have done during the pandemic.
Sharma also requested the government to take up the issue of the students who have lost an year due to the pandemic.
India has been working with countries around the world, especially in West Asia, to facilitate the return of citizens working or studying there and more than a million people have travelled abroad on Air India flights, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Monday
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Over 200 Indians, who were working in the UAE and had to return home due to the pandemic, have lost goods worth almost Rs 20 crores My husband, who is 68 years old and a heart patient, has still not recovered from the trauma of the loss. Sometimes he starts screaming about how we have lost everything. I can’t fully express what we are going through, says Arsila Yesudasan, 56, from Thiruvananthapuram. Even after spending three-fourth of our retirement money to purchase basic items to settle in our homeland again, he doesn’t even own a good pair of trousers now to go outside of the house.