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  • Kerala seeks Centre’s nod for extra flights for low-income Keralites from Gulf nations

    By PTI

    TRIVANDRUM: The Kerala authorities on Thursday sought the Centre’s nod for extra or constitution flights booked by it for journey of low-income Keralite emigrants from Gulf nations to the state through the upcoming festive season in April.

    Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct the Civil Aviation Ministry to provide crucial approvals for extra or constitution flights booked by the State from the second week of April.

    The Kerala CM additionally drew Modi’s consideration to the large hikes in airfares up to now two months and requested that the Central authorities “proactively” intervene and provoke negotiations with airways working within the India-Gulf sector to make sure they don’t undertake an exorbitant pricing technique throughout festivals and faculty holidays.

    Vijayan, in a letter, stated that main festivals for Keralites comparable to Vishu, Easter and Ramzan have been falling within the second and third week of April and in view of the exorbitant air fares within the India-Gulf sector, the state authorities had determined to function extra or chartered flights at affordable charges for low-income emigrants in Gulf nations.

    “I request you to direct the Civil Aviation Ministry to accord the necessary approvals expeditiously for the additional or charter flight operations booked by Government of Kerala from the second week of April 2023,” he stated.

    The Kerala CM stated the variety of seats accessible on the market to or from a overseas sector was decided by a bilateral settlement with the Indian authorities.

    “As this permitted number of seats is fully utilised by scheduled carriers currently, unless the Union government grants exemption or relaxation, they will not be able to operate any additional flights. Only by obtaining such approval from the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the foreign or Indian aircraft operator can operate additional or charter flights to India from the Gulf,” he stated.

    Stating that the Centre’s intervention was crucial, as exorbitant air fares from the Gulf nations to Kerala, particularly throughout peak or festive seasons, “has been a vexing problem”, he stated these charges are unaffordable to many, notably migrant staff.

    “The airline operators have not responded favourably to various requests from migrant organisations and the Kerala government in the recent past to fix air fares at reasonable levels,” Vijayan stated.

    As a end result, thousands and thousands of migrant staff are pressured to pay exorbitant airfares, typically to the tune of a number of months of their meagre financial savings, to journey to their properties, he added.

    TRIVANDRUM: The Kerala authorities on Thursday sought the Centre’s nod for extra or constitution flights booked by it for journey of low-income Keralite emigrants from Gulf nations to the state through the upcoming festive season in April.

    Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct the Civil Aviation Ministry to provide crucial approvals for extra or constitution flights booked by the State from the second week of April.

    The Kerala CM additionally drew Modi’s consideration to the large hikes in airfares up to now two months and requested that the Central authorities “proactively” intervene and provoke negotiations with airways working within the India-Gulf sector to make sure they don’t undertake an exorbitant pricing technique throughout festivals and faculty holidays.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Vijayan, in a letter, stated that main festivals for Keralites comparable to Vishu, Easter and Ramzan have been falling within the second and third week of April and in view of the exorbitant air fares within the India-Gulf sector, the state authorities had determined to function extra or chartered flights at affordable charges for low-income emigrants in Gulf nations.

    “I request you to direct the Civil Aviation Ministry to accord the necessary approvals expeditiously for the additional or charter flight operations booked by Government of Kerala from the second week of April 2023,” he stated.

    The Kerala CM stated the variety of seats accessible on the market to or from a overseas sector was decided by a bilateral settlement with the Indian authorities.

    “As this permitted number of seats is fully utilised by scheduled carriers currently, unless the Union government grants exemption or relaxation, they will not be able to operate any additional flights. Only by obtaining such approval from the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the foreign or Indian aircraft operator can operate additional or charter flights to India from the Gulf,” he stated.

    Stating that the Centre’s intervention was crucial, as exorbitant air fares from the Gulf nations to Kerala, particularly throughout peak or festive seasons, “has been a vexing problem”, he stated these charges are unaffordable to many, notably migrant staff.

    “The airline operators have not responded favourably to various requests from migrant organisations and the Kerala government in the recent past to fix air fares at reasonable levels,” Vijayan stated.

    As a end result, thousands and thousands of migrant staff are pressured to pay exorbitant airfares, typically to the tune of a number of months of their meagre financial savings, to journey to their properties, he added.

  • 50 individuals can provide prayers at Nizamuddin Markaz mosque throughout pageant, Centre tells HC

    The Centre on Wednesday advised the Delhi High Court that fifty individuals chosen by the Waqf board will be allowed to supply prayers on the mosque within the Nizamuddin Markaz through the coming pageant season as soon as the names of these people are offered to the SHO of the world.
    The submission was made earlier than Justice Mukta Gupta by the central authorities through the listening to of a plea searching for opening of the Nizamuddin Markaz the place the Tablighi Jamaat congregation was held amid the Covid-19 pandemic and has been locked since March 31 final yr.
    Advocate Rajat Nair, showing for the Centre, advised the court docket that the Delhi Waqf Board has to ahead an software containing the 50 names to the Station House Officer (SHO) of the world and thereafter, these individuals alone could be allowed to enter the mosque to supply prayers.
    The submission on behalf of the Centre was made after the Board, represented by senior advocate Ramesh Gupta and advocate Wajeeh Shafiq, urged the court docket to allow some people to hope on the mosque through the coming ‘shab-e-barat’ vacation on the finish of the week.

    They stated solely the mosque could be used and never the madrasa situated there.
    Gupta additionally urged the court docket to resolve the matter earlier than the holy month of Ramzan commences from April 13 as extra individuals would wish to provide prayers on the mosque throughout that point.
    The court docket, thereafter, listed the matter for listening to on April 12.
    The Board, in its plea, has contended that even after unlock-1 pointers permitted spiritual locations outdoors containment zones to be opened, the markaz — comprising the Masjid Bangley Wali, Madarsa Kashif-ul-uloom and connected hostel — continues to be locked up.

    It has additional contended that even when the premises was a part of any felony investigation or trial, maintaining it “under lock as an out of bound area” was a “primitive method” of enquiry course of.
    An FIR has been registered beneath the Epidemic Diseases Act, the Disaster Management Act, Foreigners Act and numerous provisions of the penal code in reference to the Tablighi Jamaat occasion held on the markaz and the next keep of foreigners there through the Covid-19 lockdown.