Guj govt sends two buses to bring back students arriving in Mumbai from Ukraine
Ahmedabad Feb 26 PTI 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 saidThe students along with other stranded Indian nationals are expected to arrive at the Mumbai airport from Romanias capital Bucharest around 9 pm the official addedThe first evacuation flight from Bucharest took off on Saturday afternoon for Mumbai with 219 Indian nationals on board the External Affairs Ministry announced earlierThese passengers include 56 students from Gujarat who had gone to Ukraine for higher studies and got stuck due to the ongoing Russian invasionWe 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 M A Gandhi managing director of the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation GSRTCAnother 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 addedGujarat education minister Jitu Vaghani had said earlier that around 2500 students from the state were stranded in Ukraine PTI PJT PD KRK KRK
Ahmedabad Feb 26 PTI 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 saidThe students along with other stranded Indian nationals are expected to arrive at the Mumbai airport from Romanias capital Bucharest around 9 pm the official addedThe first evacuation flight from Bucharest took off on Saturday afternoon for Mumbai with 219 Indian nationals on board the External Affairs Ministry announced earlierThese passengers include 56 students from Gujarat who had gone to Ukraine for higher studies and got stuck due to the ongoing Russian invasionWe 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 M A Gandhi managing director of the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation GSRTCAnother 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 addedGujarat education minister Jitu Vaghani had said earlier that around 2500 students from the state were stranded in Ukraine PTI PJT PD KRK KRK
