An Air India evacuation flight from Romania carrying Indian citizens has been evacuated from Ukraine amid the ongoing crisis with Russia. The flight will arrive in Mumbai at 4 pm on Saturday and around 60 people from Maharashtra, most of them medical students will be onboard.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal will receive the evacuees at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. About 1,200-2,000 people hailing from the state are estimated to be stranded in the Eastern Europe nation, of which the state government’s control room has received details on 366 people, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said Saturday.
In another development, almost nine months after the Supreme Court scrapped the Maratha quota, the Maharashtra government on Friday has taken the decision to set up an independent and dedicated backward class commission to study the backwardness of the Maratha community. The decision was taken at a meeting of the cabinet sub-committee of the Maratha Reservation held by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.