As many as 108 folks belonging to Himachal Pradesh have been evacuated from Ukraine to date, whereas 26 J&Okay natives have reached New Delhi from the war-hit nation.

Himachal chief minister Jai Ram Thakur knowledgeable the state meeting on Wednesday that no pupil from Himachal Pradesh was presently in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. However, some are nonetheless caught in Kharkiv, he added. Jai Ram mentioned he had interacted with a number of the college students stranded in Ukraine and in addition their dad and mom via a video name and asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was making all doable efforts for his or her evacuation.

Congress legislator Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu alleged that the Center didn’t evacuate Indian college students from Ukraine on time. He claimed that not less than 10 college students from Himachal had been nonetheless caught in Kharkiv.

Meanwhile, 155 college students from J&Okay are nonetheless caught in Ukraine. Nasir Khuehami, nationwide spokesperson, J&Okay Students’ Association, mentioned to date 26 college students from J&Okay have already arrived in India. “Eight of them have even reached their native places. Six have arrived in Samba and two at Udhampur,” he said, adding that 18 students will reach Srinagar on Thursday.

The J&K resident commission has also set up a help desk at New Delhi airport to provide assistance to the evacuees from Ukraine.

“Students of J&K arriving in New Delhi from Ukraine were received today at the airport by officials of the resident commission.The staff assisted them by all possible means on their arrival. Boarding and lodging arrangements have also been made for those staying over in New Delhi. Moreover, air tickets were provided to the evacuees as per their requirements for their onward journey to Jammu and Srinagar by the J&K government,” J&Okay authorities spokesperson mentioned in a press release.