Punjab seeks Centre's intervention to send stranded NRIs back
Chandigarh/UNI: Punjab NRIs Affairs Minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi on Saturday demanded that Central Government should immediately intervene in the matter of the NRIs stranded in India due to lockdown and pave way for their home countries.
Flagging this issue in meeting of Council of Ministers through video conferencing on Friday, Sodhi also urged Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to take up this serious issue vigorously with the Prime Minister in his video conferencing meeting with Chief Ministers of all states.
The Minister said that many NRIs had come to their homeland for some time but they stuck up here because the curfew/lockdown imposed as preventive measure to contain the spread of deadly Coronavirus. He said that large number of these NRIs related from Canada, United States of America, England and other countries.
Rana Sodhi said that the Union Government should help these NRIs and arrange special flights for their safe return by liaisoning with their respective countries so that they can go to their families as soon as possible.
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