New Delhi:Stepping up its efforts to evacuate Indian students stranded in war-hit Ukraine, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high level meeting on Ukraine crisis. Modi has decided to depute four Union ministers Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju and V K Singh to travel to Ukraine's neighbouring countries to coordinate the evacuation mission and help students, government sources said.
Singh will visit Poland, Jyotiraditya Scindia Romania and Moldova, Kiren Rijiju Slovakia and Hardeep Singh Puri Hungary to manage the evacuation of Indians stuck in Ukraine. These ministers will be going there as "special envoys" of India, they said. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Several ministers, including External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, also attended the meeting. This comes at a time when the Government of India is evacuating stranded Indian citizens from Ukraine under the evacuation plan titled 'Operation Ganga'.