Vande Bharat flight brings 10 stranded in Dubai

Nagpur: The third Vande Bharat Mission flight from Dubai landed around 5pm at Nagpur airport on Tuesday. Only 10 passengers disembarked at Nagpur while the rest belonged to Pune and Mumbai, where the flight had halted before heading for its final destination.
Sub-divisional officer Shekhar Gadge said three were from Amravati and seven from Nagpur. All of them were stranded in Dubai since the lockdown started in March. Amravati residents left soon after reaching Nagpur in private vehicles.
Nagpur flyers were placed in institutional quarantine at Ravi Bhavan and a private hotel. “Four persons expressed their inability to pay for the hotel quarantine charges so they were moved to government centre,” Gadge said.
Before this, two Vande Bharat flight have landed at Nagpur, the first flying from Moscow via Delhi late on June 17 night. The first batch had 145 MBBS students stuck in Russian universities’ hostels. These students belonged to Nagpur, rest of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
The next lot of medical students reached the city from Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, late on June 20 night. These included 73 students from Maharashtra and 74 from Chhattisgarh. Chhattisgarh government had arranged buses for its students on both the occasions. On June 20, six migrants too were accommodated in the buses.
The fourth Vande Bharat flight from Moscow is expected to land at Nagpur in the wee hours of Tuesday. Another batch of stranded MBBS students would be arriving in this flight. Officials said Chhattisgarh government has again sent buses while MP passengers will have to arrange their own transport. “MP residents will have to show permission without which the passengers wouldn’t be allowed to go and will be quarantined in Nagpur,” they said.