New Delhi

As 210 Indian students left from Rzeszow Airport of Poland for Delhi to escape the war in Ukraine, Road Transport Minister Gen (Retd) V K Singh praised the Indian ambassador to Poland and Lithuania Nagma Mallick for her relentless work to support the Indian students crossing from the warzone.

While seeing off the students in the  Globemaster transport aircraft that is carrying the students home, Gen Singh asked them to applause for Ambassador Nagma Mallick and the entire staff of the embassy who had waited in the freezing cold for them and looking out for the Indians on the border.

Gen Vijay Kumar Singh posted the video clip of he addressing the homebound students on board the Indian Air Force plane while Nagma Mallick stood alongside him:

As 210 #IndianStudents and 10 dogs left on a C-17 Globemaster aircraft from Rzeszow Airport today, a very special mention for the fantastic officials of @IndiaInPoland under the leadership of Ambassador Ms Nagma Mallick. pic.twitter.com/omjRbg5S5a

— General Vijay Kumar Singh (@Gen_VKSingh) March 4, 2022

Nagma Mohammad Malik is the 1991 cadre IFS officer who also happens to be the first Muslim woman Indian Foreign service.in Poland during the crisis foreign officer has not only been taking care of the Indians students but also been working.

She also went to seek the Polish Education institutions to allow the Indian students to continue their studies disrupted by the events in Ukraine.

She has been often seen standing alongside Gen Singh while moving around at the airports to ensure arrangement for the Indian students flying home.

Gen Singh also wrote about the embassy in Poland that “All of them have worked out of their skins at their desks or being out there at the borders tending to our people.”