New Delhi: The Centre on Monday decided to send four Union ministers to the neighbouring countries of Ukraine to coordinate the evacuation of Indians, including students, stuck in the war-torn country. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Union ministers Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju and VK Singh will be going as special envoys of India.
Scindia will supervise evacuation from Romania and Moldova while Rijiju will go to Slovakia. The government sources said that Puri will go to Hungary while Singh will be in Poland to manage the evacuation. The decision to send these ministers came a day after Modi asserted that ensuring the safety of Indian students and evacuating them was the government's top priority.
Monday's meeting was also attended by several ministers and officials, including External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla. Modi had chaired a meeting on the Ukraine crisis on Sunday too. It was decided at the meeting to further enhance cooperation with the neighbouring countries of Ukraine to expedite the evacuation of Indian students, sources had said.
