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349 HP students stranded in Ukraine have returned home: Jai Ram Thakur
HP chief minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday informed the assembly that as many as 349 students hailing from the state, who were stranded in the war-torn Ukraine, have returned safely
Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jai Ram Thakur on Saturday informed the assembly that as many as 349 students hailing from the state, who were stranded in the war-torn Ukraine, have returned safely.
Thakur was speaking on the eighth day of the budget session. As per information received from the ministry of external affairs (MEA), he said that 149 Himachali students are still in Ukraine or have reached the neighbouring Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, from where evacuation flights are taking off.
“Some students have been able to leave Kharkiv and reach the designated places. The satisfactory thing is that now the return of students from Kharkiv has also started he said,” he said.
“According to the information received from the MEA, many flights have arrived in India from Ukraine in the last 24 hours Operation Ganga and more have been scheduled. A large number of Indians will be brought back in the next two to three days. The increasing number of flights shows that a large number of Indians have left Ukraine and are currently in neighbouring countries,” said the CM.
