More evacuation flights under Vande Bharat soon: Hardeep Singh Puri

NEW DELHI: Indians still stuck in foreign land and want to return to the country will soon have options to return home, as the government has announced to further ramp up Vande Bharat flights in the coming days.

“We are going to severely ramp up flights under Vande Bharat to bring back Indians from Gulf countries, Malaysia, Singapore and other parts of the world,” Aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri said at a webinar organised by GMR.

The Vande Bharat flights, announced and planned by the Indian government and operated by Air India, is in its third phase and already brought back about 90,000 Indians stuck in various countries and also taken about 25,000 Indians from India to various parts of the world.