Nearly 1.25 lakh Indians returned from overseas under Vande Bharat Mission: Aviation Minister
Under the ‘Vande Bharat Mission’, India has been successful in bringing back home 1, 25,000 of its people from different countries until now, Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on June 24."Vande Bharat continues to be a mission of hope and happiness for stranded and distressed Indians around the world. So far, nearly 125K Indians have come back on these evacuation flights and nearly 43K have flown out of India. On June 23, 6,037 people returned from different countries," Puri said in a tweet.As many as 2,50,087 Indian nationals stranded abroad have been repatriated since the beginning of Vande Bharat Mission last month, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a statement.The government started the mission on May 6 to help stranded people reach their destinations u