New Delhi, Jul 16 (UNI) Rajya Sabha MP and senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh has written to Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, requesting him to rescue the stranded Indian students in Taiwan under the ‘Vande Bharat Mission’.
Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter on Thursday, Mr Singh posted the letter and said,”Mr @HardeepSPuri some of our Indian students are stuck in Taiwan, they are requesting to return back to their country. I request you to assist them as soon as possible, and bring back the students to India under the Vande Bharat Mission”.
In a letter to Mr Puri, the AAP leader said,”I would like to request you to kindly provide a Repatriation flight through Vande Bharat Mission from Taiwan to India, as more than hundred Indian students are stranded there.”
“Many of them are stuck there for more than three months with living expenses being very high in Taiwan. Many of them have exhausted whatever money they had and are unable to afford the chartered flights which are charging almost six times the normal fare,” Mr Singh’s letter said.
“List of some of the students who are stranded there is with the embassy. I hope you will kindly take a positive view in this regard, as early as possible, as per rules, and bring back these students to India,” the letter added.
The Centre had started the ‘Vande Bharat Mission’ on May 6, to help those stranded due to the novel coronavirus pandemic reach their destinations via international repatriation flights.
According to the Civil Aviation Ministry, 2,210 repatriation flights were operated under the Vande Bharat Mission till July 13, carrying over 2.9 lakh passengers. Of these, 1,103 were inbound flights carrying 2,08,724 passengers and 1,107 were outbound flights with 85,289 fliers.
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