statesman news service KOLKATA, 26 JUNE: The first flight chartered by the West Bengal government to bring back tourists from the…
statesman news service
KOLKATA, 26 JUNE: The first flight chartered by the West Bengal government to bring back tourists from the state stranded in flood-ravaged Uttarakhand will arrive in Kolkata tomorrow.
The state government has chartered an Airbus 320 aircraft, with around 140 seats, from Air India. The flight, AI-3401, will take off from Dehradun Airport at 2 p.m. and land at N S C Bose International Airport in Kolkata at 4.15 p.m., an Air India spokesperson said today. It will be a direct flight, with no stopover at Delhi.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had announced yesterday that flights would be chartered from Dehradun to bring back tourists and pilgrims from Bengal, who have been left stranded in Uttarakhand.
Meanwhile, from 20 to 23 June, the railways have ferried around 672 people back to Kolkata from Uttarakhand by regular and special trains from Dehradun and Haridwar stations, an official release said.
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