Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 12: The second direct flight carrying 169 medical students, who were stranded in Bangladesh amid country-wide lockdown to curtail the spread of Coronavirus, arrived at Srinagar International Airport on Tuesday afternoon.
With this, the return of 337 students, stranded in Bangladesh, have been facilitated during the last five days.
However, no such arrangements have been made for Kashmiris stranded in UAE as Srinagar International Airport doesn’t feature in the list of airports provided by the centre from where people can choose their destination in India.
Official sources said that an Air India special evacuation flight, which took off from Dhaka’s Shahjalal International Airport at around 1200 hrs, directly landed in Srinagar. “After screening, the students have been sent to 14-day mandatory quarantine,” they said.
They said more such flights are also being readied by the authorities to facilitate other Kashmiris as part of the ‘Operation Vande Bharat - A homecoming’, India’s massive repatriation operation to bring home its citizens stranded abroad. Bangladesh has around 550 medical students from Kashmir, who study in various government and private medical colleges in Dhaka and Mymensingh.
On Friday, 168 medical students, who were stranded in Bangladesh, were brought to the valley in the first special flight from Dakha to Srinagar International Airpor |
