NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, FEB 26
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Friday night thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for arranging a special flight to bring back 100 students from the state who are stranded in Ukraine.
The State Govt has made arrangements to bring the students back to Gujarat who will arrive in India tomorrow. Special responsibility has been assigned to the Resident Commissioner and Commissioner of Geology & Mining Dept for the students coming to Delhi and Mumbai respectively.
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) February 25, 2022
In a tweet, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said it will make arrangements to ferry the students to the state from Mumbai or Delhi.
યુક્રેનમાં ફસાયેલા ગુજરાતી વિદ્યાર્થીઓ પ્રધાનમંત્રીશ્રી નરેન્દ્ર મોદી અને ભારત સરકારના સફળ પ્રયાસોથી ખાસ શરુ કરાયેલી રેસ્કયુ ફલાઇટ મારફતે સહિસલામત મુંબઈ આવી ગયા છે. આ 44 વિદ્યાર્થીઓને GSRTCની બે વોલ્વો બસ દ્વારા ગુજરાત પરત લાવી તેમના વતન પહોંચાડવાની વ્યવસ્થા પણ રાજ્ય સરકાર કરશે.
— CMO Gujarat (@CMOGuj) February 26, 2022
“CM Shri @Bhupendrapbjp has thanked PM Shri @narendramodi for all the arrangements made for the repatriation of about 100 young students from Gujarat stranded in the war-torn areas of Ukraine,” the Gujarat CMO tweeted.
“The State Govt has made arrangements to bring the students back to Gujarat who will arrive in India tomorrow. Special responsibility has been assigned to the Resident Commissioner and Commissioner of Geology & Mining Dept for the students coming to Delhi and Mumbai respectively,” the CMO said in another tweet.
The Gujarat government has sent two buses to bring back 56 students who would be landing in Mumbai on Saturday night upon evacuation from Ukraine, an official said.
The students, along with other stranded Indian nationals, are expected to arrive at the Mumbai airport from Romania’s capital Bucharest around 9 pm, the official added.
The first evacuation flight from Bucharest took off on Saturday afternoon for Mumbai with 219 Indian nationals on board, the External Affairs Ministry announced earlier.
These passengers include 56 students from Gujarat who had gone to Ukraine for higher studies and got stuck due to the ongoing Russian invasion.
“We are informed that Indians, including Gujarati students will be brought by two flights. One will land in Mumbai today at 9 pm. To bring 56 students back to Gujarat, we have already sent two Volvo buses, each having capacity to accommodate 45 persons. These buses have already reached Mumbai,” said MA Gandhi, managing director of the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC).
“Another flight with Gujarati students on board may land in Delhi afterwards. But since the distance by road is greater, we have not sent any buses there. Instead, we have tied up with the Uttar Pradesh transport department which has agreed to deploy its buses and ferry our students here,” he added.
Gujarat education minister Jitu Vaghani had said earlier that around 2,500 students from the state were stranded in Ukraine.
