MUMBAI: Even as the Indian government readies the second phase of its Air India repatriation flights, named Vande Bharat Mission, for the scores of Indian nationals stranded abroad the opportunity means nothing as they cannot afford the Rs 1 lakh or so needed to fly back home and stay in 14-day hotel quarantine.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor many of the 6,000-8,000 Indian students in the UK, the high costs of travel and quarantine has made it difficult for them to return to India; many have lost their part-time jobs,\u201d said Sanam Arora, chairperson of NISAU, an umbrella organisation for Indian students in the UK.<\/p>\n
In March, the government had allowed returnees to do home quarantine, but the plan had failed. For the current lot, depending on the hotel, it costs Rs 4,000-7,000 per day for quarantine stay and three meals, which spikes the return cost by Rs 50,000 or more. Then again, one-way economy class air fare on AI repatriation flight costs about Rs 55,000 for a flight from London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUMBAI: Even as the Indian government readies the second phase of its Air India repatriation flights, named Vande Bharat Mission, for the scores of Indian nationals stranded abroad the opportunity means nothing as they cannot afford the Rs 1 lakh or so needed to fly back home and stay in 14-day hotel quarantine. \u201cFor many of the 6,000-8,000 Indian students in the UK, the high costs of travel and quarantine has made it difficult for them to return to India; many have lost their part-time jobs,\u201d said Sanam Arora, chairperson of NISAU, an umbrella organisation for Indian students in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}