Indians to be repatriated in 16 chartered flights in two days

TDT | Manama

Private organisations in Bahrain are organising 16 private charter flights from Bahrain to three different Indian cities over two days at the request of many stranded Indian citizens. All the flights are operated by Gulf Air. Of these, 13 flights are headed to cities in the coastal Indian state of Kerala, one is set to fly to the city of Bangalore in India’s Karanataka state and the remaining two flights will depart to the capital city of Hyderabad in Telangana.

Five of the approved flights are organised by the Bahrain Keralyeeya Samajam (BKS), three under the initiative of the Indian Club Bahrain and the rest by other regional community organisations. The private charter flights which are scheduled to take off today and tomorrow have been approved by the Indian Embassy.

Two Indian Club flights today are flying to Hyderabad, in collaboration with the Telangana Cultural Association and Bangalore, in collaboration with the Kannada Sangha Bahrain. The flights are scheduled to depart at 16:00 and 19:00 this evening.

Their third flight, in association with the Indian Youth Cultural Congress is to fly out tomorrow to the city of Cochin, Kerala at 11.30 am. Scores of people travel from Bahrain to India on a regular day but now, they are all stranded here, many of whom have lost their jobs, have medical emergencies or other urgent needs to get back home.