Left in lurch: Indian students, salaried professionals forced to hire charter aircrafts to return to Korea, India

Hundreds of Indian professionals are on the verge of losing their jobs in South Korea, and students their career as they continue to get stranded in India for the want of international flights.

These disgruntled Indians are the ones who either work or study in Korea and had visited India before the country was put under lockdown and flights were canceled in March.

Similarly, there is another lot of Indians who are stuck in Korea and are waiting to return to India but there seem no repatriation Air India flights in the sight under the Vande Bharat Mission.

Air India had operated one flight from India to Incheon (Korea) and back to India on June 6 and 7 respectively under Vande Bharat Mission but many Indians are still left out in both the countries and the Indian government has not announced any further flights for Korea under the same mission.

The Indian embassy has its hands up and reportedly told the stranded Indian nationals that the fundamental purpose of the Vande Bharat Mission is to bring stranded Indians from all over the world back home, not from India to other countries. Read more...