Indigo will fly the maximum of ten flights followed by two each by Air India Express and Spice Jet and one each by Air India, Vistara and Go First.

NEW DELHI, Mar 3 (The CONNECT) - India has brought back over 6200 people so far from Ukraine under a massive rescue operation named ‘Operation Ganga’. The number of civilian flights is being scaled up and more than 7400 people are expected to be brought through special flights in next two days - 3500 tomorrow and over 3900 the day after.

Indigo will fly the maximum of ten flights followed by two each by Air India Express and Spice Jet and one each by Air India, Vistara and Go First.

The Ministry of External Affairs, in close coordination with Ministry of Civil Aviation, is making all efforts to bring the Indian students back to India in fast pace. Indian Airlines are putting their resources in faster evacuation process. Four Union Ministers- Hardeep Singh Puri, Jyotiraditya M Scindia,  Kiren Rijiju and Gen (Retd) V.K. Singh - have gone to countries adjoining Ukraine to support and supervise these operations. Indian Civilian planes as well as Indian Air Force planes are regularly bringing back stranded Indian students.

Meanwhile, a tweet by @KhabarAchchi said Its great to see @iskcon supporting Indian students stranded in and outside Ukraine.Dressed in Indian attire, the volunteers in service embody the spirit of humanity 

The evacuation process, which began on February 22, has brought back over 6200 people so far, including 2,185 coming today through 10 special civilian flights. Today’s flights included 5 from Bucharest, 2 from Budapest, 1 from Kosice, and 2 from Rzeszow by Civilian airlines. In addition, 3 IAF flights are bringing more Indians today between 11 pm on March 3 and early morning of March 4. Four IAF flights have already brought 798 Indian nationals between midnight of March 2 and early morning of March 3.

The tentative schedule of special flights for tomorrow is as below: