Dubai's NRI bears airfare to repatriate stranded Indians

Dubai, Monday 1 June 2020

Indian tourists are stranded not only in the country but also abroad and in such a crisis a tourist living in Dubai has come forward to help the Indian people. He has borne the cost of the plane to send the trapped Indians back home.

56-year-old UAE 'spice king' Dhananjay M. "There are a lot of people on short-term visas who are still stuck," Datar told IANS.

This includes pregnant women, children, tourists and others. I have rushed to repatriate more than 3,000 people to Kerala, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Goa and Chandigarh.

Dubai, home to about 60,000 people from Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra, spoke to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray last week and immediately wrote a letter to the central government seeking emergency landing.

Datar hopes that following Thackeray's personal intervention, Mumbai will be allowed to fly as soon as possible under the Vande Bharat Mission and the Indian country will be able to return.

Datir, chairman of the prestigious Al-Adil Trading LLC Group in the UAE, has so far sponsored tickets for more than 1,000 Indians, while others have already booked tickets or already had a return ticket that now works.