Over 300 Indians stranded in Qatar due to the coronavirus- restrictions have returned in two chartered flights to Nagpur and Mumbai.
Event Location
Qatar, Qatar
Start Time
06 July 2020, 12:00 AM
End Time
31 July 2020, 12:00 AM
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These repatriation flights were not part of the government’s ‘Vande Bharat Mission’, but were arranged by representatives of the Indian Cultural Centre in Doha, an apex body of Indian expatriates there, and the Maharashtra Mandal in Qatar, a community organisation.
One of these flights carrying 172 passengers arrived in Nagpur on Friday and the other with 165 Indians onboard landed in Mumbai on Saturday, Indian Cultural Centre’s vice-president Vinod Nair told PTI.
Passengers of the Mumbai-bound flight paid 20,000 each for their return. The passengers in the Nagpur-bound flight included 86 from Chhattisgarh, 34 from Madhya Pradesh and 52 from the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.They paid 24,000 each as the ticket fare, he said.
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