By IANS,
Dubai : National carriers Air India and Indian Airlines and leading private Indian airline Jet Airways will provide special fares to those Indians in Kuwait who avail of an amnesty scheme that the Gulf nation has launched for illegal foreign residents.
In a statement, the Indian embassy in Kuwait said the three carriers have agreed to a special request from the mission to offer special fares to Indian amnesty seekers.
Kuwait launched a new 45-day amnesty scheme Sep 1, which allowed all illegal foreign residents in the Gulf city-state to either regularise their papers or leave the country.
The amnesty was launched at the directive of Kuwait’s ruler Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to mark the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
“The Embassy of India is happy to announce that on its request Air India, Indian Airlines and Jet Airways have agreed to provide special fares to those who wish to avail the facility of Amnesty-2008 to travel to India,” the embassy said in statement.
Calling upon all Indians in Kuwait to abide by the law of the land, it also appealed to those Indian nationals who were without valid visas or residencies, to avail of the benefits of the amnesty scheme, the deadline of which expires Oct 15.
There are around 550,000 expatriate Indians in Kuwait.