Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government has decided that person stranded in remote parts from where Rail Services are not available and also travelling on road is not possible, will be evacuated by Air.
As part of this mission, 180 persons are being evacuated from Andaman & Nicobar Islands by a special flight of Air Asia today. Flight will land at Bhubaneswar at 12.50 P.M.
Dedicated teams of officers of the Odisha Government intensively interacted with the concerned State Governments and also the migrant workers, who are being brought back to the State, completed the formalities required under the COVID-19 protocols and made every arrangement to bring those workers to the concerned Airports by picking them up from different islands in the Anadaman.
The mission will continue till all migrant workers safely return to the State.
More than 600 persons have already been evacuated by Air from Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam, Himchal Pradesh and erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir.
It is pertinent to mention here that more than 3 lakhs persons have been brought to Odisha by “Shramik Trains” and many have been brought by road.
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