Ground report / lockdown stripped from Rajasthan's Kota , thousands of students gathered at the bus stand, said - there is the excitement of going home

• 252 buses of Uttar Pradesh reached Rajasthan to take 7 thousand 500 students of UP trapped in Kota
• Still stuck in hostels and PG students coming from other states to study, waiting for them to go home

Sunil Chaudhary

Apr 18, 2020, 12:31 PM IST

quota. On Friday, the UP government sent 252 buses quota to pick up about 7 and a half thousand coaching students from Uttar Pradesh stranded in Rajasthan. All these students are coaching in Kota for medical and engineering preparations. Living in the same hostels and PG. On Thursday, the Rajasthan and UP governments had decided to arrange buses to bring back the students trapped in Kota. After this, 102 buses left Jhansi and 150 buses from Agra on Friday. Late on Friday, these children left for UP in buses. But before this, the lockdown flew as thousands of students gathered together at the bus stand. The administration also failed to follow social distancing. Meanwhile, the Bhaskar correspondent spoke to these students and knew their mind. Here is a ground report.Glad to go home, but a little bit nervous not to get coronavirus in a long journey

Bhaskar correspondent talked to Abhishek Tripathi, who was ready to go home at the bus stand. He hails from Kannauj in UP. Preparing for NEET from an institute in Kota. According to Abhishek, he got a message from coaching on the evening of 16 April that you should keep your bag ready. Buses are coming to take you home tomorrow. Abhishek was quite happy with this. However, they are also getting nervous after leaving the hostel. They are afraid of getting corona infected. Because their house is far away.

Abhishek told that during the lockdown the time was just cut. Could not be studying Friends were also worried from inside that no one could get infected. During this, the mother and father had to talk eight to ten times a day. They used to say that when they come to mind, only talk. I came to Kota about a year ago. There was no problem with the lockdown. But, I'm a little scared.252 buses of UP Roadways reached Kota by late evening. Here they were sanitized. Screening of students going to UP was done. Then they left.

Lockdown is not important because if disturbed, the mess will be more

Lucknow resident Gaurav told that we are not having any problem. Even while living here, there was no tension. Yesterday found out that buses are coming and can go home so are leaving. Otherwise, the hostel was fine here too. I am preparing for JEE. I came here in July. Mother and father were constantly talking. He had seen our entire location. Therefore there was no tension. There is definitely some excitement. I have lived here in Kota before. There is definitely a lockdown but, there is nothing special. If disturbed, there will be more mess. If you keep peace, all the work will be done.

Food was coming from outside the hostel, so there was a fear of infection

Akanksha Singh, a resident of Pratapgarh in UP, has been preparing for MBBS for the past two years. She is studying here from class 11. Akanksha told that buses will come to go home. There is a lot of excitement when you get this message. It is nice to go home because, there was some problem in the hostel. Food used to come from outside during lockdown here. So there was a fear that there might be an infection.

But, now it is in our mind that we should reach home safely so that food will be available at home. Akanksha said that there was no problem during the lockdown. Yes, reading the news of corona infection was getting a little tense. There was little disturbance. However, we were focused on studying friends. During lockdown, parents used to interact. He never spoke negatively.

Lockdown is the reason for not going home

Kunwar Pratap Singh, a resident of Dhanbad in Jharkhand came to Kota in July last year. He is preparing for Neet here. Kunwar Pratap Singh, who came to leave his partner Abhishek Tripathi at the bus stand, said that some friends of the hostel had gone home before the lockdown. But, we were stuck here. In such a situation, a little mantle was stressed. I live in a hostel in Kunhadi. Corona positive cases have been found near here. We left 30 children in the hostel here.

The family members of Kunwar Pratap Singh also booked flight tickets twice for his return home. But, it was canceled. After this, the train was also canceled. He said that he talks to his parents daily. In which the mother sometimes used to be emotional because, I am out of the house at the moment. It is also going on in our mind that we also have to go home. If we stay with the family there, the mantle stress will end. There will also be good studies there.