PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Feb 25: The Singhbhum Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) on Thursday evening approached the Union External Affairs Ministry for bringing back the 24-year- old Rashika Khemka, a Jamshedpur girl stuck in the war-ravaged Ukraine.
Daughter of Sanjay Khemka, a resident of Baradwari, she is pursuing her MBBS course at the Odessa National Medical University in Ukraine. She is in the final year of the course.
Related to S. Jaishankar, the Minister of External Affairs, the president of SCCI Vijay Anand said they want an immediate evacuation offer from the war zone.
“Since the war has intensified and further escalation is also expected in the days to come we seek your intervention to use your good offices for evacuating her from Ukraine at the earliest,” stated the letter.
Rashika had come to her hometown in January this year. Her uncle Nawal Khemka, a hotelier said she stays as a paying guest at Odessa.
“We have been worried ever since Russia attacked Ukraine. We are in constant touch with her and praying to God for her safe return from Ukraine, ” he said.
Holed up inside her apartment, she is trying to stay in touch with her parents and other students through WhatsApp calls.
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Indian students enrolled in Ukrainian higher education institutions are living in fear and expecting immediate help from the Indian embassy.
On Tuesday night, 242 passengers, mostly medical students, arrived in Delhi.
The worried family members had also approached the Deputy Commissioner of East Singhhum Suraj Kumar seeking help.
SCCI has also decided to approach the PMO today.
A meritorious student Rashika had completed her schooling at Sacred Heart Convent School in Jamshedpur and later she completed her higher studies from Kota in Rajasthan.
