Amid the Ukraine Russia Crisis Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked the Indian Air Force (IAF) to come on board for the evacuation process under Operation Ganga.
The Indian Air force is likely to deploy several C-17 aircrafts as a part of Operation Ganga from today.
On Monday, PM Modi chaired a high-level meeting over the Ukraine crisis. Presiding over the meeting, the prime minister said that the entire government machinery is working round the clock to ensure that all stranded Indians in Ukraine are safe and secure, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.
Till now only private Indian aircrafts were involved in the evacuation process from Romania and Hungary as the Ukrainian airspace had been shut since February 24.
India began evacuation of around 14,000 of its stranded citizens on February 26.
In order to scale up the ongoing evacuation efforts under Operational Ganga, PM Modi has called for the IAF to join the exercise, the sources said.
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