Over 40,000 people from Jammu and Kashmir stranded invarious parts of the country due to the coronavirus lockdown have been broughtback home, officials said on Wednesday.
A total of 39,825 residents of the union territory werebrought back to their home through buses, while 3,217 stranded people reachedUdhampur on three special trains from Karnataka, Goa and Delhi, an officialspokesperson said.
As many as 169 persons will reach Srinagar from Dhaka,Bangladesh, on a special flight, he said.
The administration has assured that all the residents of theunion territory stranded in Bangladesh will be brought back to their homes.
“The first flight from Bangladesh with 81 studentsarrived in Srinagar on May 8 and the second flight with 169 students arrived onTuesday. To date, 419 students from Bangladesh have arrived in J and K,”the spokesperson said.
Upon their arrival in Srinagar, the students were screenedand their samples were taken for COVID-19 testing, he said.
Of the total 39,825 returnees till date, 10,743 came fromPunjab, 18,111 from Himachal Pradesh, 10,971 from other states and UTsincluding Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra,Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Assam and Madhya Pradesh, as per an official communiqueby Commissioner Secretary, Jal Shakti, Ajeet Sahu.
The fourth train from Goa carrying 697 stranded passengersis expected to reach Udhampur by this evening, the spokesperson said.
Commissioner Secretary, Industries and Commerce, Manoj KumarDwivedi, who is also the Nodal Officer for management of return of strandedpeople at Udhampur, and District Development Commissioner, Piyush Singla arepersonally monitoring the facilities being extended to the passengers duringtheir de-boarding and movement to their home districts at the Udhampur railwaystation, he said.