{"id":323154,"date":"2020-05-12T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T11:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323154"},"modified":"2020-05-12T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T11:38:12","slug":"6037-indians-return-home-in-31-flights-under-vande-bharat-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/6037-indians-return-home-in-31-flights-under-vande-bharat-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"6037 Indians return home in 31 flights under Vande Bharat Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304132 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/air-india-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/air-india-jpg.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/air-india-jpg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/air-india-jpg-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>6037 Indians have been flown back to India in 31 inbound flights operated by Air India and Air India Express under Vande Bharat Mission in 5 days beginning from May 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Government of India started Vande Bharat Mission &#8211; one of the largest initiatives to repatriate nationals back to India, on May 7. Under this mission, Ministry of Civil Aviation is coordinating with Ministry of External Affairs and state Governments for bringing Indians back to their homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Air India along with its subsidiary Air India Express are operating a total of 64 flights (42 by Air India &amp; 24 by AI Express) to 12 countries viz. USA, UK Bangladesh, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Philippines, UAE and Malaysia to repatriate 14,800 Indians back in the first phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Each and every function in this massive air evacuation mission strictly adheres to the safety and hygiene protocol laid down by the Government and DGCA. MoCA, AAI and Air India leave no stone unturned to prioritize the safety of passengers, the crew and ground handling staff in these sensitive medical evacuation missions, the official statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Extensive and meticulous safety arrangements are made in accordance to government guidelines, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6037 Indians have been flown back to India in 31 inbound flights operated by Air India and Air India Express under Vande Bharat Mission in 5 days beginning from May 7. Government of India started Vande Bharat Mission &#8211; one of the largest initiatives to repatriate nationals back to India, on May 7. Under this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[574,13027],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323155,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323154\/revisions\/323155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}