GUWAHATI: State health and family welfare minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on April 24 said that the 391 students from Assam who were stranded in Kota would be sent for institutional quarantine upon arrival.
“All the students as well as officials who were sent to bring them back will be sent for institutional quarantine. We will also collect their swabs after five days for testing,” said Sarma.
The minister further informed that these students are being brought back to the state in 17 buses, and the students themselves have paid for the bus fares amounting Rs 7,000 per head.
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It is to be mentioned that the Assam government took up measures to bring back hundreds of students from the state who are stranded in Rajasthan’s Kota during the lockdown.
A team of Assam Police was sent to Kota by a special flight to escort the students and bring them safely back to Assam. The chartered flight used for the purpose is a cargo plane, the Learjet 45 of Triveni Earth Movers Pvt Ltd.
The police team will then bring back the students by special buses from Rajasthan to Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh.
