Operation Ganga: 80 flights, 24 ministers pressed in motion to evacuate Indians from Ukraine
By ANI
NEW DELHI: In a bid to additional scale up the evacuation efforts, the federal government has deployed 80 flights underneath ‘Operation Ganga’ to evacuate stranded Indians from Ukraine.
The authorities has additionally roped in additional than two dozen Ministers to observe evacuation missions with none hiccups, sources informed ANI on Thursday.
Sources informed ANI that the federal government has accelerated the evacuation plan for the Indians stranded in Ukraine. Total flights ferry has been elevated to convey an increasing number of Indians. By March 10, a complete of 80 flights can be pressed into service to evacuate the stranded Indians.
These flights belong to the fleet of Air India, Air India Express, IndiGo, Spice Jet, Vistara, Go Air, and likewise planes from Air Force.
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Sources additionally informed ANI that the 35 evacuations have been deliberate from the Romanian capital Bucharest, which embody 14 flights of Air India, eight of Air India Express, seven of IndiGo, considered one of Spice Jet, three of Vistara and two of Indian Air Force.
A complete of 28 flights have been scheduled to take off from Hungary’s capital Budapest. Among these 28, 15 flights are from Go Air, 9 from IndiGo, 2 from Air India, 1 from Indian Air Force, and 1 from Spice Jet. A complete of 9 flights are scheduled from Rzeszow, Poland, which incorporates eight from IndiGo and 1 from Indian Air Force, whereas 5 flights will take off from Suceava, Romania and three flights will take off from Kosice, Slovakia.
Sources additionally said that roughly 17,000 stranded Indians can be evacuated from Ukraine by these 80 flights, scheduled to take off from Budapest, Bucharest, and Rzeszow, Suceava, and Kosice.
Till March 2, a complete of 24 flights have landed underneath ‘Operation Ganga’. The authorities began ‘Operation Ganga’ on February 26 to evacuate stranded Indians from Ukraine.
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The first flight carrying Indians landed in Mumbai on February 26 which was acquired by Piyush Goyal, Minister for Commerce and Industry, Textile, Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution.
Prime Minister has despatched 4 Ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, Hardeep Singh Puri, Kiren Rijiju, and VK Singh to Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Poland to supervise the evacuation of Indians.
The Modi authorities has additionally roped in ministers to observe easy evacuation and obtain Indians at Delhi and Mumbai Airport who’re coming from Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Poland underneath Operation Ganga.
Ministers Jitendra Singh, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Rao Inderjeet Singh, Narayan Rane, G Kishan Reddy, Kailash Choudhary, Parshottam Rupala, Bhagwant Khuba, Virendra Kumar, Meenakshi Lekhi, V. Muraleedharan, Bhagwat Karad, Nisith Pramanik, Shantanu Thakur, Rao Saheb Danve, Darshana Jardosh, Devusinh Chauhan, Bharati Pravin Pawar, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma, Subhas Sarkar, Kapil Patil have been assigned to obtain the flights coming from neighboring international locations of Ukraine carrying Indians.
