Watch: What PM Modi Told Students Evacuated From Ukraine

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday blamed previous governments for a large number of Indian students going abroad to pursue medical education and asserted that his dispensation has been working to augment the number of medical colleges so that students can enroll themselves within the country. In an interaction with students who have returned from the war-hit Ukraine amid a large-scale evacuation exercise launched by the government under "Operation Ganga", PM Modi also empathised with those students and their families who have expressed their anger, even at him, after facing hardships in Ukraine. "I think it is natural for them to feel angry in this crisis," he said, adding that they have been facing hardships and braving cold.