write a letter to the editor to a national daily newspaper drawing the attention of concerned authorities towards the Indians who have lost job in gulf countries and not getting chance to return home country due to pandemic COVID-19
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Once the government’s plans are finalised, the MEA will contact diplomatic missions in Delhi and the DGCA will give clearance to specific airlines to begin advertising flights from the Gulf, sources said.
The government is making a separate assessment about places from where it will need to operate special flights, due to the large numbers of Indians needing to return, many of whom will be unable to afford tickets at present. Many of these countries have contacted Indian missions in the last few weeks, pressing the urgency of ensuring that Indians are allowed to return.
More than eight million Indians live and work in the Gulf region. In particular there are rising concerns about the numbers of migrant labour and other professionals that could lose jobs in the region, given plummeting oil prices and economic worries.
“It is true the numbers of Indians needing to return have increased in the last few weeks. Not only are there businessmen and travellers who were stuck when the travel restrictions began, there are many expatriate workers whose contracts have ended, and don’t have new jobs, and others who need to return to India for personal reasons,” a diplomat from one of the Gulf countries told The Hindu.