India plans to repatriate up to 2,000 stranded nationals from the UAE through 10 special flights in a week.
The Indian embassy on Tuesday released a list of 177 passengers, who will travel on the first evacuation flight from Abu Dhabi to Kochi on Thursday.
India plans to repatriate up to 2,000 stranded nationals from the UAE through 10 special flights in a week starting from Thursday.
For the purpose, officials from the embassy formed a priority list of passengers and informed them over phone. The first list of evacuees is selected from the database created following registrations made on official portal.
All 177 passengers need to fill a self-declaration form, which will have their personal and health details. Such forms are provided at airline offices, where ticket bookings will be done.
According to sources, the ticket fare is expected to be below Dh800.
On Thursday, there is another flight, which will fly from Dubai to Kozhikode. On following days until Wednesday, there will special flights to Chennai, Lucknow, Hyderabad, New Delhi and Amritsar.
