On Saturday, 170 people were brought and on Sunday morning, an Iraqi Airways special flight brought 200 people to Delhi. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: About 2,200 Indians in non-conflict zone in southern Iraq have expressed their desire to leave for home and they will be in India in the next 36 to 48 hours even as 200 others reached New Delhi on Sunday morning, said ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Sunday.
As the momentum of evacuation picked up, the facilitation process of transporting Indian nationals from Iraq is focused on the non-conflict zone in southern Iraq, Syed Akbaruddin, spokesperson with the MEA told reporters on Sunday.
Four teams of six persons each have been placed in Najaf, Karbala and Basra apart from Baghdad which have collected details of those who would like to leave for home. “Our advice to them is to leave. But if they are facing problems or are staying back because of tickets, government of India is ready to provide them. We are also ready to provide assistance in terms of contractual problems. Based on that our assessment is 2,200 Indian nationals have in some form or other expressed their desire to leave Iraq,” Akbaruddin said.
Of these, Akbaruddin said 600 have been provided tickets by government through the facilitation process of the Baghdad mission. The 600 have been paid by their companies. Another 1,600 were being provided tickets by government for their return, he said adding that since developments in the last 48 hours, government has calibrated its approach and momentum of bringing back people has picked up.
On Saturday, 170 people were brought and on Sunday morning, an Iraqi Airways special flight brought 200 people to Delhi. In addition, Iraqi Airways is also flying normal flights from Baghdad. In the next 36 to 48 hours, two other special flights from Najaf and Basra will bring 200 and 280 people respectively to Delhi.
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