NEW DELHI: In the biggest exercise of its kind globally, India will begin bringing back lakhs of its citizens stranded abroad from Thursday (May 7) in a phased manner on non-schedule flights and naval ships.
Among the first targets is UAE, where about 2 lakh people have registered with the local missions to return from Dubai and Abu Dhabi alone, and who could be brought back in the first phase. Official sources here said in the “short-term’’ the government hopes to facilitate the return of 1,92,000 Indians and another 2-2.5 lakh in the medium term.
