dr. S. Jaishankar has been constantly posting about India’s evacuation mission called “Operation Ganga”.
New Delhi:
India has stepped up efforts to evacuate Indian nationals trapped in cities and border points of war-torn Ukraine. At least three evacuation flights are planned this afternoon to bring back stranded Indians. This includes two flights from the Romanian capital Bucharest and one from the Hungarian capital Budapest. The flights will land in Mumbai and Delhi.
Announcing the ninth evacuation flight back to India this morning, the Union’s foreign minister, Dr S Jaishankar, tweeted: “We will not rest until our fellow Indians are safe”. The minister has been continuously posting about India’s evacuation mission called “Operation Ganga”.
We will not rest until our fellow Indians are safe.
Ninth #OperationGanga flight departs from Bucharest to New Delhi with 218 Indian nationals. https://t.co/uQzlBMlxi9
— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) February 28, 2022
The seventh Air India Express flight carrying 182 Indian nationals evacuated from Ukraine landed in Mumbai on Tuesday morning from the Romanian capital Bucharest, an airline spokesman told PTI news agency.
Union MSME minister Narayan Rane received them at Mumbai airport, the spokesman said.
The AI Express flight IX-1202 from Bucharest via Kuwait landed on the runway at 7:40 am, it said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken with his colleagues in Romania and the Slovak Republic, Ukraine’s neighbors from which India plans to evacuate its citizens, about the evacuation efforts from their country.
On Monday, the government said that of the estimated 20,000 Indian nationals present in Ukraine, about 8,000 have left the country since the first advisory earlier this month.
The government has also decided to send four Union ministers to oversee the evacuation and has announced plans for more flights to bring back students not only from India, but also neighboring and developing countries, and send relief supplies to Ukraine. as a humanitarian gesture.
Ministers Hardeep Puri, Kiren Rijiju, Jyotiradtiya Scindia and General (retd) VK Singh are tasked with overseeing the evacuation efforts of Ukraine’s neighbours.
Along with Air India, owned by the Tata group, SpiceJet and IndiGo have also joined the government’s evacuation efforts under Operation Ganga.
SpiceJet will operate a special flight to the Hungarian capital Budapest on Friday. The airline said yesterday that it will use its Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for this special flight departing from Delhi on Monday evening. It said it plans to carry out more evacuation flights and is in talks with the authorities concerned.
IndiGo has said it is conducting two evacuation flights using A321 aircraft to return Indian citizens safely. Both flights will land in Delhi on Tuesday, it noted.
