Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Coronavirus: Dubai’s Sikh Motorcycle Group and Sikh Religious Community in Jebel Ali Help Repatriate 3,000 Unemployed Indians

                    Members of The Sikh Khalsa Motorcycle Team Dubai 
Sikh motorcycle group has teamed up with a Gurdwara community to help repatriate thousands of unemployed workers to India from Dubai.
The group is working with the Sikh gurdwara in Jebel Ali to pay for peoples’ rent, flights home and to distribute packages of rice, lentils, flour, salt and oil to those who can cook in their accommodation.
The group has been delivering meals to unemployed workers across Ras Al Khaimah, Ajman, Sharjah, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, since March.
Unemployed workers undergo medical tests before leaving Dubaifor India on repatriation flight.
More than 1,000 more workers will board flights to India over the next few weeks.


     Surender Singh Kandhari, chairman of the gurdwara in Jebel Ali
Surender Singh Kandhari, chairman of the gurdwara in Jebel Ali, said he hoped regular passenger flights would resume so more people could be repatriated to India.
“We have helped charter flights to north India and assisted families and men who were needy and those with medical issues,” said Mr Kandhari, whose volunteer group has paid the airfare for about 3,000 men and women.“I hope the governments will start normal commercial flights so then we don’t need to charter planes.
“All these men want to come back to UAE because they know that once the economy gets better, there will be plenty of opportunities here.”

Dr.Gurdeep KaurAssociate ProfeesorSri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa CollegeUniversity of Delhi



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