New Delhi: A total of 13.74 lakh Indians have been repatriated so far through different modes of the Vande Bharat Mission including Air India, private and foreign carriers, chartered flights, naval ships and land border crossings. The Phase 6 of Vande Bharat Mission became operational on 1st September.
Briefing media, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said 1007 international flights have been scheduled to operate during this month. He said over 2 lakh people are expected to be repatriated.
Of these, 270 international flights have already been operated from GCC countries, Jordan, Afghanistan, Maldives, China, Thailand, US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Australia. Bilateral travel arrangements form the bulk of this phase with travel ‘bubble’ flight operations from 11 countries.
