The government on Monday decided to send four Union ministers to the neighbouring countries of Ukraine to coordinat🅘e the ൲evacuation process of Indians, including students, still stuck in the war-torn country.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting c꧂haired by Prime Minister Nareꩲndra Modi.
Union ministers Hardeep Puri, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Kiren Rijiju and V K Singh will be going as 🎀"special envoys" of India, government sources said.
Scindia will take care of evacuation effor🌳ts from Romania and Moldova while Rijiju will go ๊to Slovakia.
T𝄹he 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 s🎶afety of Indian students and evacuating them is the government's top priority.
Monday meeting was also attended by several ministers, including External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Foreign Secre♌tary Harsh Vardhan Shringla among other senior officials.
Modi had chaired a meeting on the Ukraine𓆏 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.
