Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has conveyed profound sympathies for the terrible deaths of 24 Jalgaon district visitors in a Nepal bus accident. The Chief Minister has offered the bereaved relatives the state government's full support and has taken immediate steps to repatriate the corpses to Maharashtra.

In collaboration with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other central authorities, Chief Minister Shinde has scheduled a special Air Force jet to return the bodies of those killed in the Nepal bus accident. The Union Home Minister promised the Chief Minister full assistance from the central government. The special flight will take the bodies to Nashik on August 24, Saturday, where they will be handed over to their families.