Govt plans at least 7 more Op Ganga charters till March 2; IndiGo to operate 2 one-stops flights
NEW DELHI: India is trying to get more of Ukraine’s east European neighbours on board for allowing access to Indians from the war-torn country so that they could be flown home from there. Polish ambassador to India Adam Burakowski on Sunday Tweeted that the country “is allowing all Indian students who escape from Russian aggression in Ukraine to enter without any visa.” The decision came amid a large number of people stuck on Ukraine-Poland border checkpoints and huge difficulties in passing over from there. India has set up 24×7 control centers to assist in evacuating its nationals through the border crossing points with Poland, Romania, Hungary and the Slovak Republic.
The external affairs ministry Sunday said while 1,000 Indians have been flown back on four flights over Saturday and Sunday, an equal number are at places from where they can be airlifted. Five more AI charters (4 to Bucharest and one to Budapest) on wide-body planes and two IndiGo flights to Budapest (one-stop via Istanbul on single aisles), will operate as part of Operation Ganga till March 2.
