Centre to send four Miners to countries neighbouring Ukraine to oversee evacuation ops

Prime Miner Narendra Modi, while chairing a meeting over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine on Monday, decided to send four Union Miners to Poland and Romania to oversee the evacuation of thousands of Indians, including students, who are still stuck there.
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Union Miner for Housing and Urban Affairs, and Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Puri, Miner for Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju, Civil Aviation Miner Jyotiradtiya Scindia, and and Miner of State for Road Transport and Highways and Civil Aviation General V K Singh are the ones who will be heading out soon and will be visiting as Special Envoys of the Indian government, sources said.

Apart from the four miners, the meeting on Monday was attended External Affairs Miner S Jaishankar, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Miner of Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs & Food & Public Dribution and Textiles Piyush Goyal, PM’s Principal Secretary PK Mishra, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, Foreign Secertary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, and other senior officials.

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Thousands of Indian students who were studying in Ukraine have been stuck in the country which was invaded Russia last week. Many of those students reached the country’s borders with Poland and Romania, but have not been allowed to enter those nations. Several videos of some of those students, asking for help, have emerged on social media.
They have been stuck in freezing temperatures, with limited food and water, and without any help.
The government had identified an alternate train route to help evacuate the students, from Uzhhorod in western Ukraine to Budapest, Hungary’s capital city.
Admitting that the evacuation of Indian students at the border with Poland was “problematic” as thousands of people, including Ukrainians, are using that route, Shringla said on Sunday: “It is not an organised situation, it’s a conflict zone. Many of our people have been there for a long time and they are in a very difficult situation.”
He added, “We fully empathise with them and we have been working round the clock to see what options we can provide. One of the options in the event we cannot make much progress into Poland, we come down to Uzhhorod and from there every two hours there is a train which leaves for Budapest, Hungary… This is an option we are recommending to our people.”