Scindia hails ‘Operation Ganga’

Hyderabad: Observing that the civil aviation sector has an important humanist element to it, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday hailed ‘Operation Ganga’, the evacuation of Indians from warhit Ukraine, and thanked officials, airline companies, pilots and other stakeholders who helped in successfully conducting the mission.

Whenever there has been a cause of calamity or an evacuation plan, it is the civil aviation sector that has been at the forefront of that endeavour, Scindia said. “Civil aviation also has a very important humanistic element to it,” he said. “We have recently seen that with Operation Ganga where, probably, the largest evacuation programme run by any government from a civil aviation point of view, has been completed,” he said, speaking at a ministerial plenary in the ongoing Wings India 2022 here, the largest civil aviation event in Asia.