New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday interacted with a group of students who recently came back from war-torn Ukraine. These students hail from various parts of Uttar Pradesh, reports PTI quoting official sources.
The Prime Minister is in his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi for a tour in the State as a part of campaign for Bharatiya Janata Party in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
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During his interaction with the students, PM Modi blamed the previous governments saying that Indian students would not have to go abroad to pursue medical education if the policies around it were more effective from earlier.
“Govt working to have medical colleges in every district, more doctors will likely be produced in 10 years than in earlier 70 years,” he added.
He also addressed the displeasure expressed by some students and their parents, even at him, after facing hardships in Ukraine. "I think it is natural for them to feel angry in this crisis," he said.
Indians are being evacuated from Ukraine under Operation Ganga
The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that more than 3,000 Indians have been brought back from Ukraine in the last 24 hours and the process is still going on. MEA Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that more flights are being scheduled for the next 2-3 days to bring back more Indians stuck in Ukraine.
Under 'Operation Ganga', thousands of Indians stranded in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion have been brought back to India on evacuation flights.
Of the 20,000 Indians who were stranded in war-torn Ukraine, more than 6,000 have been brought back to the country so far.
As Ukraine has shut its airspace due to the conflict with Russia, India is evacuating its nationals by moving them via land routes to the east European country's neighbours -- Romania, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia -- and then flying them out from there.