On 11th March, Sanjay Pandita, the father of a student, Dhruv Pandita, who hails from J&K, thanked the Indian Government for safely evacuating his son from the war-struck Sumy, Ukraine. Expressing his happiness," I want to say that it's Modiji's son who has returned, not my son. We had no hopes given the circumstances in Sumy. I am thankful to the Government of India for evacuating my son.". As a part of Operation Ganga, 242 Indian students also returned to their homeland amid the Russia-Ukraine war.