Manas Kapur – Mumbai Uncensored, 11th March 2022
An Air India departure from Poland’s Rzeszow carrying graduates emptied from northeastern Ukrainian city Sumy arrived in Delhi on Friday morning, authorities said.
The flight had taken off from Rzeszow around 11.30 pm (IST) on Thursday and arrived in Delhi at 5.45 am on Friday. India has sent three trips to Poland to bring back 600 such students that are stuck in Sumy. One more flight arrived in Delhi around 8.40 am, authorities confirmed.
As indicated by the information shared by the evacuees with PTI, the main flight was for first, second and third-year graduates. The subsequent flight is for fourth and fifth-year students and the third is for those with pets, fifth and 6th-year understudies and for some others who might have been abandoned, they said.
The Indian government is completing a difficult clearing exercise under Operation Ganga to assist abandoned Indians with leaving Ukraine. The activity to clear the 600 understudies from Sumy started on Tuesday morning.
Following Russia’s attack on Ukraine on February 24, the Indian government sent off activity to bring back abandoned Indian nationals, including students, from the conflict-torn country. The mission, named ‘Operation Ganga’, additionally gives compassionate help to Indian nationals who have moved over to the adjoining nations of Ukraine, which incorporate Romania, Hungary, Poland, Moldova, and Slovakia.
Operation Ganga is arranged by the Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Indian Armed Forces. Carriers including Air India, IndiGo, SpiceJet, and Air India Express have likewise joined the mission.
A devoted Twitter account (@opganga) has been set up to aid the departure of Indian nationals from Ukraine through Operation Ganga.
Additionally, Control Centers, which work 24×7, have been set up all through the line crossing focuses with Poland, Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia. The departure flights are liberated from cost.
Approximately 17,000 stranded Indians will be evacuated from Ukraine via the flights scheduled to take off from Budapest, Bucharest, Rzeszow, Suceava, and Kosice, ANI reported.
The Indian government has roped in multiple dozen Ministers to screen smooth departure and get Indians who are getting back from Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Poland, under Operation Ganga, at the Delhi and Mumbai air terminals, sources told ANI on Thursday.
