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Students from Kota arrive in Indore: 22 from Indore, 1,100 from MP back to hometown during lockdown


Stranded students in Kota arrived Indore late on Wednesday evening. About 19 students from Indore and over 1,100 students from Madhya Pradesh arrived in state. As their arrived, their parents and family members relieved from the worry of their child getting infected in another state and suffering alone.
Students from all over the country come to Kota, Rajasthan, to prepare for competitive exams in engineering and medicine. However, after the nationwide lockdown was imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19, about 25,000 students were left stranded in Kota. Over 8,000 were from UP.
Several of them had demanded they be allowed to go home, as Kota is a Covid-19 hotspot with 92 cases, as on April 17. A campaign on social media campaign #SendUsBackHome was started by students that irked state government starting from UP to bring back students.
Following the procedure, parents are required to register their child’s details in the allotted online form.
After registration, the government sent 150 buses from Gwalior to bring back students. Students are generally undergraduates with some also pursuing their undergraduate courses in Kota.
Each bus was allowed to carry only 20 students. Students from Kota arrived Indore late night on Wednesday and were taken to Nehru Stadium.  
Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Dinesh Jain said, “The buses were sanitised and underwent thermal screening before the students boarded them from Kota on Wednesday morning. Food packets, water bottles, masks were provided to the students.”
A teacher on board shared, “The buses were sanitised and screened only from outside. Ideally, it was more essential to sanitise the buses from inside. So that was one aspect, which questioned the facility rest everything was great.”
He added that once students reached, a health check-up was carried out for each student. If their results are clear, they will be sent home after their parents sign an undertaking that they will keep their child in home quarantine for 14 days.
In an exclusive interview, students arriving from Kota shared their experience and joy of being back with their families.

“I am so glad to be back with my family. I was staying in hostel in Kota. It was completed locked down. We were scared and worried about conditions getting worse. I was preparing for medical entrance. This is the first time that I was living away from my family. It was challenging, but truly a lesson well-learnt. With a dream to become a doctor, we have to be prepared to handle such emergency situations.”
Lagan Tamrakar, 18

“Being positive in every situation is an essential lesson that I have learned from this experience. It is my dream to become a doctor. Being a doctor, I want to be prepared to fight such emergency situations. I was scared, but being positive, we can fight the fear and become true warriors. The way doctors and healthcare workers are courageously fighting covid-19, I am surer of pursuing medicine in future.”
Shubham Shukla

“I am so happy that I have got a chance to go back home. Hostel wardens had told us that stay put till May 3. I can’t believe I am coming back. I was preparing for NEET. There was a little issue for groceries and basic necessities as well, but we cannot blame the wardens as the city was under a strict lockdown. I am so elated to be back.”
Swati Singh




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