Can’t bring students from Kota: Bihar govt. tells HC

‘We can’t violate lockdown norms’

25/04/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,PATNA

At a time when more than 12,000 students from Bihar, stranded in Rajasthan’s Kota, and their parents have been repeatedly appealing to the State government to ensure their early evacuation, the government in a reply to the Patna High Court on Thursday said while it was “sensitive to the plight of stranded students, but bringing them back would amount to violation of lockdown guidelines”.

On Thursday, a group of students from Bihar observed a silent protest in Kota while sending out an SOS to the Bihar government to get them back as soon as possible.

The students are stuck in different hostels and paying guest accommodations in Kota where they had gone to attend engineering and medical entrance coaching institutes.

Earlier, the Uttar Pradesh government had sent as many as 300 buses to Kota to bring back the State’s stranded students. On Thursday, 38 students from Dadra and Nagar Haveli and six from Diu had left by three buses, while 18 buses from Assam and 31 buses with students from Haryana were reported to be ready to leave Kota on Friday.