Vande Bharat Mission: Third phase lends a hand to North-east Indians stranded in Kyrgyzstan

Air India will carry more than 100 Indians including people from six states of Northeast India stranded in Kyrgyzstan on 30 June 2020 under the third phase of the Vande Bharat Mission.

The Government of India started the third phase of the Vande Bharat mission on 11 June 2020 which will last till 2 July 2020. The mission is to bring back stranded Indians from different parts of the world.

The Law and Education Minister of Tripura, Ratan Lal Nath said that the flight would land at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati. He added that a great number of residents of north-east Indian states had returned from Kuwait, Bangladesh, and other parts of the region.

Out of these, 70 people are from Manipur, 67 from Assam, eight from Arunachal Pradesh, and two each from Tripura and Mizoram, and one from Meghalaya.

Health officials said that they were sent in institutional quarantine for seven days, after which they had to undergo home quarantine for another seven days. Most of the residents who returned were tested positive for COVID-19.

The fourth phase of the mission will begin on July 3. In this phase, stranded Indians from Gulf countries, Singapore, and Malaysia will be brought back to India.