J&Ok CM Omar Abdullah arranges deluxe buses for evacuated college students from Iran following transport considerations

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday ordered the association of deluxe buses for Indian college students who returned from Iran late at night time. The primary flight carrying 110 Indian nationals landed in New Delhi on Thursday night time below Operation Sindhu.

As many as 90 college students among the many 110 individuals are from Jammu and Kashmir who had been evacuated from the conflict-ridden zone in Iran. Earlier than touchdown in India, the evacuees had been flown to Armenia. They landed within the nationwide capital early within the morning.

“The Chief Minister has taken word of the request of the scholars evacuated from Iran concerning the standard of buses organized to move them from Delhi to J&Ok. The Resident Commissioner has been tasked with coordinating with the JKRTC to make sure correct deluxe buses are organized,” an announcement from J&Ok’s CMO learn.  

The Chief Minister has taken word of the request of the scholars evacuated from Iran concerning the standard of buses organized to move them from Delhi to J&Ok. The Resident Commissioner has been tasked with coordinating with the JKRTC to make sure correct deluxe buses are organized.

— Workplace of Chief Minister, J&Ok (@CM_JnK) June 19, 2025

The transfer follows considerations raised by the Jammu and Kashmir College students Affiliation over insufficient transportation to carry again the scholars from Delhi.

On the similar time, while college students from Jammu and Kashmir evacuated from war-torn Iran have thanked the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) for his or her swift repatriation, many are dissatisfied with the dearth of preparations made by the Union Territory authorities for his or her onward journey to Kashmir.

“We have now been travelling for 4 days now. We had been assured that we’d be supplied bus serviced until Srinagar,” a scholar stated.

The J&Ok administration had despatched three buses to carry again its college students. Nonetheless, these buses had been common, non-air-conditioned run by Jammu and Kashmir State Street Transport Company (JKSRTC), lots of which had been reportedly in poor situation.

Greater than 4,000 Indian nationals reside in Iran, and half of them are college students. The primary batch of evacuated nationals travelled by street to the Armenian capital, Yerevan, below the supervision of the Indian missions in Iran and Armenia.

With inputs from businesses