A dozen flights were expected to bring more stranded Indians back home on Tuesday, the sixth day of the Vande Bharat mission, according to the government.
Meanwhile, a naval vessel docked at Kochi with a group of 202 people from the Maldives. Four flights were to arrive from the Gulf, five from Southeast Asia, including the Philippines and Singapore, and one each from the UK, the US and Bangladesh.
Tuesday’s plan included the largest number of flights since 7 May, when India started the mammoth mission to bring home Indians stranded abroad owing to covid-19 pandemic.
The flights were to land in New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Srinagar, Kochi, Mangaluru and Kannur—places closest to the hometowns of the evacuees,