By PTI
KOLKATA: Direct flights between India and China ought to begin, and the governments of the 2 international locations should work collectively on this, Chinese Consul General in Kolkata Zha Liyou mentioned.
Flight companies between the 2 neighbours have been disrupted ever since coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan in late 2019, and subsequently unfold the world over.
The flight disruption posed a serious problem for tons of of Indian college students in addition to households of Indians working in China and businessmen, although Beijing just lately lifted the visa ban after about three years.
“Direct air connectivity between India and China should start and both governments should work towards this. A number of Indian students are now keen to return to China,” Liyou mentioned at a press briefing on Wednesday night.
About 23,000 Indian college students, principally finding out medication who had been stranded again residence attributable to China’s covid visa bans, made preparations to journey to China to rejoin their faculties however skilled difficulties because of the absence of direct flights.
Indian passengers are at present travelling to China by way of Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar, shelling out exorbitant sum of money on steep airfares.
India and China have been in talks for a number of months to renew restricted flight companies, however the negotiations made little headway.
KOLKATA: Direct flights between India and China ought to begin, and the governments of the 2 international locations should work collectively on this, Chinese Consul General in Kolkata Zha Liyou mentioned.
Flight companies between the 2 neighbours have been disrupted ever since coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan in late 2019, and subsequently unfold the world over.
The flight disruption posed a serious problem for tons of of Indian college students in addition to households of Indians working in China and businessmen, although Beijing just lately lifted the visa ban after about three years.
“Direct air connectivity between India and China should start and both governments should work towards this. A number of Indian students are now keen to return to China,” Liyou mentioned at a press briefing on Wednesday night.
About 23,000 Indian college students, principally finding out medication who had been stranded again residence attributable to China’s covid visa bans, made preparations to journey to China to rejoin their faculties however skilled difficulties because of the absence of direct flights.
Indian passengers are at present travelling to China by way of Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar, shelling out exorbitant sum of money on steep airfares.
India and China have been in talks for a number of months to renew restricted flight companies, however the negotiations made little headway.
