1,200 students of coaching institutes sent back to homes

Kanpur: Smiles came back on the faces of around 1200 coaching

students

when they were sent back to their homes on Monday.

The students, after being brought from Kakadeo and Rawatpur areas to the labour welfare centre park in Shastri Nagar, were sent to their destinations after competing the necessary formalities.

According to a district administration source, around 1200 students of different professional courses and competitive examinations coaching institutes were facing food and money related problems after the lockdown and had appealed to the administration to send them back to their homes.

The officials, considering their requests, decided to send them to their homes. Kakadeo and Swarup Nagar police team along with Rapid Action Force was deployed at the labour welfare centre park from where the students were to board buses. The students were examined before they boarded the bus.

Additional city magistrate (Six) Abhishek Singh said, “Since the state government had taken the initiative to send the student safely to their houses, their journey was absolutely free. A mask, lunch and a bottle of drinking water was given to them. “Around 40 buses were flagged off for Ambedkar Nagar, Mau, Ghazipur, Basti, Ballia, Kannauj, Farrukhabad, Shahjahanpur , Hardoi and other districts of the state, he added.

Rajesh Singh, a student said that he and his friends had been trapped in the lockdown . “Our parents were worried about our health and other problems . Now, we will be able to reach our homes”, he said . The students thanked the administration for considering their appeal.

BJP MLA Surendra Maithani too reached there to supervise the arrangements.