Connect with us

JAMMU & KASHMIR

Stuck in Dubai, 800 JK residents without essentials, money, demand evacuation | KNO

Aware of it, all stranded will be brought back, we are at it, says Advisor Baseer Khan

Published

on

kno news

Srinagar, May 27 (KNO): At least 800 people from the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir who are stranded in parts of Dubai have demanded an immediate evacuation stating that they have run out of money and resources. People mostly traders who are stranded in Dubai told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that all the resources available with them have exhausted and they are on verge of starvation due to the prolonged lock-down enforced in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and they have no money to travel back. They said that no work over the past weeks has compelled them to stay indoors and they are without essential commodities. They said that among the 800 stranded people over 80 per cent are employees and traders who haven’t earned a single penny during the lockdown and are indoors since then. “People employed here are without salary since the month of April due to no work as the lockdown was enforced across the whole country in view of the COVID pandemic and people are running out of essentials,” they said. At least 800 people have registered with Indian embassy but on May 22 only 150 people were evacuated by flight under Vandhe Bharat mission while at least 165 stranded people that day were made to leave back from the airport and were not allowed to board the flight, they said. Tahir Bhat, one of the stranded Kashmiri said that over the weeks only one flight has operated and evacuated 150 people but since then not a single flight has arrived to fly them back leaving them to suffer under immense challenging conditions. He said that no help from any quarter has reached them and they are undergoing really tough times and if the same situation continues for some more days they will die of starvation. They appealed the government of India and government of Jammu and Kashmir to facilitate their return home. Meanwhile advisor to Lt Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan told KNO that they are working on it and process is underway. “All those stranded there will be brought back. It may take some time but everyone will be brought back, we are working on it,” he said—(KNO)

Trending

TOP STORIES20 hours ago

CEO issues guidelines for Printers, Publishers of J&K | KNO

TOP STORIES20 hours ago

General Elections-2024 | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

Patients suffer as Nagbal Yousmarg PHC operates from rented building | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

Meet Abdul Gaffar Kanihami, the man preserving Kashmiri folk music legacy for decades | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

Entire JK lives in Jammu, city deserves quality infrastructure: Ghulam Nabi Azad | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

Baramulla admin geared up for free & fair elections: DEO Sherpa | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

Ramadan sees surge in street begging across Srinagar, elsewhere | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

Young Kulgam writer authors three books, delves into Einstein's Theory of Relativity | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

Have collaborated with J&K Police to eradicate drug menace: CCIK | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

Jammu and Kashmir Government to Fill Over 12,000 Vacancies to Tackle Unemployment | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

Teacher rationalization: | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

Centre sets-up tribunals to decide on ban on Muslim Conference factions | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

J&K admin sabotaging assembly elections, ruling like ‘uncrowned kings’: Omar Abdullah | KNO

TOP STORIES21 hours ago

In 5 years, MHA bans 9 separatist groups in J&K | KNO

TOP STORIES1 days ago

CRPF Sgr Sector wraps up inter-operational battalion tournament with spectacular finale | KNO

TOP STORIES2 days ago

In touch with Centre for more security forces, will ensure optimum utilisation of all forces in LS Polls: DGP Swain | KNO

TOP STORIES2 days ago

BJP will win 400 seats in LS elections: Tarun Chugh | KNO

Copyright © 2021