INS Jalashwa brings back 700 Indians from Male
   Date :08-Jun-2020

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 (Top) INS Jalashwa reached Tuticorin Port bringing back 700 stranded Indians from Maldives, in Tuticorin on Sunday. (Left) People show victory sign as around 366 migrants from Odisha stranded in various parts of the country are being brought back by special flights, in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.
 
 
TUTICORIN :
 
INDIAN Navy Ship Jalashwa on Sunday safely docked at the harbour in Tuticorin on Tuesday bringing back 700 stranded Indian nationals from Male. With this voyage, INS Jalashwa alone has so far repatriated around 2,700 Indians from the Maldives and Sri Lanka under Operation ‘Samudra Setu’. On June 1, the vessel repatriated approximately 700 Indians from Colombo in Sri Lanka toTuticorin in Tamil Nadu. This is the third trip to the Maldives by INS Jalashwa.
 
The rescue mission is a part of Operation ‘Samudra Setu’ under the Vande Bharat Mission, which has so far facilitated the evacuation of nearly 2,700 people from Male twice on May 8 and May 16. Under the second phase of the naval repatriation mission, INS Jalashwa with the base at Visakhapatnam would voyage for evacuation in Bandar Abbas (Iran) after Male. 366 STRANDED MIGRANTS LEAVE FOR ODISHA ON THREE SPECIAL FLIGHTS FROM JAMMU: AS MANY as 366 stranded migrants left for Odisha on three special flights from Jammu on Sunday, thanking the Naveen Patnaik Government and the Jammu and Kashmir administration for making arrangements, officials said here.
 
The migrants, mostly labourers, were picked up in State buses from various parts of the city under the supervision of Additional Deputy Commissioner, Jammu, Tahir Firdous and taken to the Jammu airport, they added. “The first flight, carrying 122 passengers, left for Odisha around 9.30 am, followed by two other flights with equal number of passengers each at 10.20 am and 11.30 am,” an airport official said.