DUBAI: Tejas Jodi Lal from Kerala has actually been provided priority over others to take the very first flight back home as he has actually lost his task in the United Arab Emirates.
The business, which he was working with in Abu Dhabi, closed down and he was sent out on overdue leave.
” I do not have cash to support myself here, so there is no option but going back home,” he said, while marking time at the Abu Dhabi International Airport to board the Air India Express special repatriation flight to Kochi on Thursday.
While the flights to home, for which the priority list is being prepared by the Indian consulates and embassies across the Gulf region, are answering the prayers of someone like Lal, not everyone has been that lucky.
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Prashant, who is a cleaner by occupation, has also been laid off and he is now confused about what he needs to do next.
” I need to leave Dubai, but then I am uncertain when I can. I didn’t apply online to be permitted a flight seat because even if I land in India,