Opposition urges govt to ensure Ukraine returned students complete courses

The Members of Parliament (MPs) in the Rajya Sabha session have urged the government to ensure facilities for Ukraine returned students to continue their education.

After scores of students, mostly medical students, have been evacuated from the war-hit Ukraine, there is growing concern over the future of these students whose studies were disrupted due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The matter also echoed in the Rajya Sabha where the Members of Parliament (MPs) have asked the Central government to ensure facilities for these students to complete their courses without imposing a financial burden on them.

The government has also assured the MPs that it would “ponder over making the required arrangements,” as reported by Indian Express.

Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu said the government will make a statement on the Ukraine situation and also the developments with regard to Indian students.

Govt to look into measures: Dharmendra Pradhan

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said that the government will look into measures that can be taken for Ukraine returned students so that they can complete their education.

Pradhan said in the Lok Sabha: “When we have brought them, you remain assured that government will ponder over making arrangements, whatsoever is required, to enable them to become doctors in future…At present, it is time for getting them out of the shock. We are all engaged in that.”

Congress’s K C Venugopal said “What is going to be done to the students is a great concern in the country now. The education of those students has now come to a standstill. What is going to be done by it, the government has to clarify because they have to provide relief in that matter.”

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