04 November 2022, 06:30 pm
The Role of Diaspora in Operation Ganga
Programme Type
Talks, Webcasts
Venue
Conference Room I, IIC main building

Presentations by Mr. Michal Tabisz, Vice President, Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport, Poland (online); and Shri Jagadeswara Rao Maddukuri, Founder and President, PolandIndia Business Council and Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awardee 2019

Chair: Amb. Dnyaneshwar Mulay, former Indian High Commissioner to the Maldives and presently Member, National Human Rights Commission

India brought back over 15,920 nationals on 76 flights under the evacuation mission ‘Operation Ganga’ that was launched following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Shri Rao Maddukuri and other Indian businessmen along with officials of the Indian and Polish embassies were instrumental in the evacuation of 4000 Indian students overland from Ukraine to Poland and then to India