“Nobody will be left behind”: DC Srinagar on evacuation of students stranded in Bangladesh

The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Srinagar, Dr Shahid IqbalChoudhary on Sunday said all the medical students stranded in Bangladesh willbe evacuated by the government.

“All Srinagar-boundmedical students in Bangladesh, pl (please) don’t worry or panic. Each one ofyou will be home InShaAllah,” he tweeted.

   

He was responding to thegrievance of a stranded student from Bangladesh who sought his intervention toshift them back home.

“We are students of EMCBangladesh, we got confirmation on flight two to fly from Dhaka but (names of)four students here are not in the list. They got an email to book businessclass tickets which is not affordable. So we request you to please intervene inthis matter,” read a grievance posted by a student, Junaid Bhat.

The DC further tweetedthat 322 air tickets were booked today (Sunday). “More to follow. NONE will beleft behind. Bulk purchase of tickets by us is to avoid individualinconveniences,” he said in a tweet.

Earlier, around 72Kashmir-based medical students in Community based medical college complainedthat their names did not figure in the list of students named for evacuation.

Already, the J&KChief Secretary B V R Subramanyam has written to foreign secretary of theGovernment of India and urged that left out students in Bangladesh may beairlifted in an aircraft with a capacity of 250 persons.

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