After anxious wait, daughter returns home

Shilpa P. | NT

For Balasubramanyam D, a veterinary inspector, and his wife Anuradha from K.R. Nagar in Mysuru, it was a big relief after spending many anxious days as their daughter, Jnanashree, got stuck in Ukraine after the Russian invasion.

Jnanashree, a first year MBBS student at Bukovinian State Medical University at Chernivstsi in Ukraine, was evacuated and reached New Delhi in the second batch of Air India flight ferrying Indians stuck in Ukraine. Her parents have reached the Bengaluru International Airport on Sunday to pick her up and the flight from Delhi is expected late in the night.

In a chat with News Trail over phone, Balasubramanyam said, “Jnanashree went to Chernivstsi in December last year. She has completed her first semester. As we got the clue on war a month ago, she had booked her tickets for a flight scheduled on March 9. After we heard about the war, our anxiety spiked and we contacted all possible authorities. On Saturday she was evacuated to Romania. From there on Saturday night, she was evacuated in the second batch, in the flight-AI 1940 from Budapest on Saturday night which took off around 8.45 pm and arrived at IGI airport New Delhi early Sunday. Currently, she is resting along with those who came in her batch at Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi. She will reach Kempegowda international airport (KIA), by Indigo flight, which is likely to depart in Delhi at 10.50 pm on Sunday and arrive at 1.25am on Monday,” he said.

Balasubramanyam added that two more students of Mysuru, Inchara from Hunsur, and Chandan Shetty from KR Nagar who are also studying MBBS with her in the same college in Ukraine, have also reached Delhi along with Jnanashree, he said.

According to Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority sources, 13 students of State who have been evacuated from Ukraine will arrive at KIA in Bengaluru from Delhi in Indigo flight on Sunday at 1.25 am. Another batch of five students from State will arrive at KIA in Bengaluru by Vistara flight on Sunday at 8.25 pm.

Earlier in the day, 12 students arrived at KIA in Bengaluru, in Air Vistara from Mumbai on Sunday at 8.50 am. Thirty students of State have been evacuated from Ukraine so far and nearly 400 are still stranded.