Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 26: While expressing serious concern over the plight of J&K students stranded in different parts of the country and outside India due to COVID-19 lockdown, CPI (M) leader Mohd Yousuf Tarigami today urged the J&K administration to make special arrangements to bring them back to their homes, the way other States are doing.
“Living under constant fear and distress, thousands of students from J&K are stranded in various parts of the country and outside India with their families worried about their health and well-being. They are seeking help as they are unable to return back home due to the travel restrictions imposed by the Government to contain the spread of the Cornavirus,” Tarigami said.
The Ex-MLA said that J&K students stuck in various parts of India want to return back to their homes and are persistently appealing the Government to evacuate them. In many cases, they are facing financial distress after their education institutions were shut down after the announcement of COVID-19 lockdown.
Tarigami said last week the UP Govt sent 250 buses to pick up about 9,000 stranded students and drop them to their native districts from Kota in Rajasthan. Similar initiatives are being taken by other states as well. J&K authorities should also think on similar pattern to bring back the stranded people across the country, especially north India. Similarly, from Bangladesh to Kyrghyzstan and from UK to Ukraine, many are fast running out of money while others fear they may die. Government of India must take up the issue with the respective Governments and Indian embassies to mitigate the sufferings of these students.
He said even thousands of labourers, shawl/handicraft vendors are struck in different parts of the country. These workers are facing scarcity of food and shelter. As these stranded labourers could not return home on time, the agriculture and horticulture work has badly been hit in J&K due to non-availability of the labour. Moreover, this is peak season for agriculture and horticulture activities in Kashmir. He also demanded that Kashmiris stranded in Jammu should also be allowed to move back to their homes.
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