NEW DELHI: The centre came to the rescue of a girl who lost her passport while trying to save the Indians stranded in Ukraine. The centre issued an emergency passport to Amanjot, a medical student of Kharkiv Institute of Medicine.

Amanjot was supposed to board a flight from Kyiv to Punjab, his hometown, on March 5. All her plans went wrong as soon as the war started. With this, she decided to leave the city along with her friend Rohit Anumalla, on Monday. She lost all her documents including the passport, during her journey to Kyiv railway station.

‘There was no help desk in the railway station to help me. I even called up the embassy but couldn’t’ reach to them,’ she said. Finally, Rohit contacted his uncle who is a member of Covid frontier Force WhatsApp group.

Through him, talked to Vijay Mishra, general manager of a private group in Lucknow and a member of the WhatsApp group called Covid Survivor Force. Mishra approached the Prime Minister's Office and External Affairs Minister S Jayasankar's adviser Amit Khare. The officials after understating the seriousness of the matter, immediately issued the emergency passport.