Buses from UP release congestion at Kathmandu airport

April 28, 2015 23:41

Sharat Pradhan reports from Lucknow: Buses sent by the Uttar Pradesh government to facilitate evacuation of Indian survivors, stranded in Nepal on account of Saturday's devastating earthquake ,have released the congestion at Kathmandu airport.

A number of people, hanging around the Tribhuvan International airport at Kathmandu, opted to return to India by buses, thereby bringing down the acute congestion at the airport.

Gorakhpur divisional commissioner Rakesh Ojha who was coordinating the relief arrangements made by the Akhikesh Yadav government , told this scribe over telephone, "The 80 buses sent by us on Monday would bring back as many as about 4,300 people stranded at Kathmandu."

He said, "The convoy of buses was flagged off from the Indian embassy at Kathmandu on Tuesday evening and should be in Gorakhpur by Wednesday noon."

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