Mission Vande Bharat: Air India special flight to bring back 169 Indian students from Dhaka today

DHAKA

: A batch of 169 Indian

students

, stranded in

Bangladesh

due to the coronavirus-linked global travel restrictions, on Wednesday will board a special Air India flight under Vande Bharat Mission for home.


The evacuation

flight

carrying the students from Dhaka will land directly in Srinagar today.

This will be the fifth flight from Bangladesh, which will depart from Dhaka.

The fourth flight brought over 169 students from Bangladesh to Srinagar on Tuesday afternoon. The third flight brought 107 stranded Indians from Dhaka to Mumbai on Monday.

The second Air India flight carrying 129 Indian

nationals

from Dhaka had landed at Delhi airport on Saturday. The first flight from Dhaka carrying Indian students had landed in Srinagar on May 8 as part of Vande Bharat Mission to bring back stranded Indians from different countries.

India began phased repatriation of its citizens stranded abroad from May 7. The government said that Air India will operate 64 flights in a week to bring back around 15,000 Indian nationals.