Srinagar, May 13 (GNS): Around 100 students, teachers and labourers from Jammu and Kashmir, stranded in Utter Pradesh due to lowdown, have appealed authorities to evacuate them at an earliest.
“We are 80 students and teachers besides labourers stuck here in UP and have nowhere to go,” a student Mudasir Ahmad Mir told GNS over phone.
“We are in continuous contact with authorities since April 8 and now that many people have been evacuated, government shall also arrange for our return to home at the earliest,” he said. Another student said that they are under distress and urged the authorities in J&K to evacuate them without further loss of time.
Meanwhile, as part of government’s initiative of bringing back the stranded people of J&K to their homes in the wake of COVID-19 Lockdown, Jammu today received first COVID special train carrying 1018 passengers while 7 buses carrying 175 people including 11 minors stranded in Jammu have left from Bhatindi to Kashmir.
Meanwhile, the government has deployed a fleet of buses, since last evening, for shifting of J&K residents stranded in various parts of Maharashtra to Nagpur. In this regard, about 900 J&K inhabitants including 400 students are being brought back by the special Shramik train scheduled to leave Nagpur for Udhampur this evening. (GNS)
