Around 200 students and Indian citizens have been evacuated from Ukraine and brought back to India as part of India’s Operation Ganga, official sources said.
A special Indigo flight that took off from the Istanbul International Airport, at 10.35 pm on Wednesday reached New Delhi at 8.31 am Thursday.
Welcoming all the returnees, Minister of State for Chemical and Fertilizers Bhagwant Khuba said the Union government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to ensuring repatriation of all Indians from Ukraine. The Union Minister received the evacuees, most of them students, at Indira Gandhi International airport Thursday morning.
The Union Minister also assured the students that their friends and colleagues will also be evacuated soon from war strife Ukraine.
Air India, Air India Express, IndiGo and SpiceJet have joined the Operation Ganga mission operating multiple flights from Ukraine's neighbouring countries to Delhi and Mumbai.
