Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Mar 27: Asserting that thousands of J&K residents, including students and labourers, have been stranded across the country in view of lockdown following Coronavirus threat, the CPI(M) today urged the Union Territory administration to take up the issue with Governments of other States.
“The unprecedented lockdown across Jammu and Kashmir along with other parts of the country in view of novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) threat has rendered thousands of J&K residents, including students and laborers, stranded away from their respective homes,” CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said in a statement today.
He said while a number of J&K residents are held up in other parts of the country, hundreds of locals are stranded away from their homes within J&K.
“These stranded people include students, workers in small trading activities and their families, who are helplessly waiting at different locations for some mode of transportation to reach at their homes,” he said.
“The administration must make a database of those, who are stranded within and outside J&K and take up the matter with the respective State Governments so that food, shelter, medicines and other necessary items could be provided to those, who are in desperate need,” he added.
He said though it is not possible to evacuate those who are stranded at the moment due to the unprecedented situation, the bare minimum J&K administration could do is to reach out to the needy through respective Governments of other states, where they are stranded.
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