Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday stated that just about 2,000 folks from Haryana, principally college students, had been caught in Ukraine and he was in contact with Ministry of External Affairs on this situation.
Khattar additionally stated the MEA had already arrange a management room, whereas in Chandigarh, a management room has been arrange by the state authorities the place folks from Haryana can contact on WhatsApp quantity 92123-14595. They may also attain Foreign Cooperation Department of Haryana authorities over e mail — mailto:[email protected].
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Khattar, who was addressing a joint press convention with Home Minister Anil Vij, stated that among the many Indians who’re caught in Ukraine embody almost 2,000 from Haryana.
“I am in touch with the Ministry of External Affairs,” the chief minister stated, replying to a query on the Ukraine scenario and the variety of these from Haryana caught there.
To one other query, he stated that among the many almost 2,000 from Haryana who’re caught most are college students and amongst them most are medical college students.
India on Thursday mounted a serious initiative to evacuate its residents from Ukraine to neighbouring nations by means of land border crossings after Russia launched a large-scale army assault on the jap European nation, triggering main world issues and sanctions in opposition to Moscow by a number of Western powers.
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Amid the deepening disaster, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin and “sensitised” him about India’s issues concerning the protection of the Indian residents in Ukraine, particularly college students.
As the scenario in Ukraine worsens after the Russian assault, a whole lot of stranded Indian college students made determined appeals to the federal government on Thursday to make sure their protected return.
Several movies emerged on social media by which teary-eyed college students urged the Indian authorities to make preparations for his or her return.
In the night, senior Congress chief Randeep Singh Surjewala shared on his Twitter deal with a video by Ajay from Julana in Jind district, exhibiting college students from India together with Haryana who had taken shelter at a metro rail station in Ukraine.
Udit, a resident of Karnal and a drugs scholar, who returned from Kyiv, instructed reporters in Karnal on Thursday that he reached dwelling three days in the past.
“The situation there has become dangerous . We request our Prime Minister that all Indians be safely evacuated,” Udit stated.
Among the scholars from Haryana who’re caught in Haryana, majority had been acknowledged to be from Karnal district.
A person whose son was purported to return on February 25 from Ukraine to Chandigarh instructed reporters right here that “we appeal to the Indian government and our embassy there to extend all help to students stuck there and evacuate them safely”.
Himanshu Sharma, from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district, instructed reporters at Chandigarh upon his return from Ukraine through Delhi, that he was finding out medication at Chernivtsi, which is positioned close to the Poland border.
“When we came (earlier this week) the situation was normal, but today we learnt that it has suddenly deteriorated,” Sharma instructed reporters in Chandigarh on Thursday whereas touring from Delhi to Himachal.
Khattar stated he had obtained a letter from Congress basic secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala and a few Haryana MLAs had additionally contacted him concerning the folks of state who’re caught in Ukraine.
In his letter, Surjewala urged Khattar to request the prime minister to increase all amenities to the Indians who’re caught in Ukraine and make preparations to carry the countrymen again dwelling safely.
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Surjewala had additionally urged Khattar to direct the Deputy Commissioners within the state to arrange a listing of those that had gone to Ukraine from their districts after which the federal government ought to attempt to set up contact with them.
Meanwhile, some households from Ambala and Yamunanagar districts, whose youngsters had gone to Ukraine for examine functions, met Haryana’s Education Minister Kanwar Pal at his residence in Jagadhri city on Thursday.
hey appealed to him to induce the federal government to increase all attainable assist to the scholars who’re stranded there for his or her early and protected return again dwelling.