According to the recent details collected by the Punjab Government, more than 500 students from Punjab are stuck in Ukraine.
District administration issued helpline numbers. The families, contacted on these numbers after which a compiled list was prepared by the authorities. 56 students from the Jalandhar district are stranded in Ukraine.
Till now, 45 students from Amritsar, 42 students from Gurdaspur, 36 from Patiala, 34 from Ludhiana, 30 from Tarn Taran, 28 from Hoshiarpur, 23 from Barnala, and 22 each from Nawanshahr, Kapurthala and Mukatsar Sahib districts are stranded in Ukraine.
Apart from them, 21 students are from Bathinda, 19 are from Pathankot, 18 are from Rupnagar, 17 from Mansa, 12 from Faridkot, 10 each from Ferozpur and Mohali. Moga has 9 students stuck in Ukraine, while 8 are from Malerkotla, 6 from Fatehgarh Sahib, 5 from Fazilka and 4 from Sangrur.
District authorities are compiling passport details, current address and contact details of the students stuck in Ukraine. This is being done in order to pass the same details to the Union government to bring the students back to their country safely.
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Parents of these students are dissatisfied with the working of government officials. They complained to the authorities about how they are avoiding calls and messages of students and are not responding to them.
“I will send you the video; you will understand what the Indian Embassy is doing with us? There is not even enough space to sit properly in the camp,” said Avantika, a student stranded in Ukraine.
Showing the phone, a student present on the WhatsApp call said "I made hundreds of calls and messages to this officer, but no one got an answer. Yes, all the messages were definitely being read. She asks what the role of the Embassy is.”