180 students return from New Delhi

Nashik: As many as 180

Nashik

students returned from New Delhi in a special train on Sunday. All the students were stranded in the capital city amid the country-wide

lockdown

.

A special train carrying 1,345 students from Maharashtra left from New Delhi on Saturday at 10 pm. The train reached Nashik Road railway station at 7.30 pm on Sunday.

The students were dropped at Bhusawal, Nashik, Kalyan and Pune stations. A team of eight doctors were deployed at the station by the Nashik Municipal Corporation to do the thermal screening of the students. The students will be home quarantined for 14 days.

The students that alighted at Nashik Road station are from Nashik, Ahmednagar and Beed, out of which 79 students were from Nashik district. Most of the students had gone to New Delhi to prepare for the UPSC exams.

Ramdas Kakade, father of a student, said, “I was keenly waiting for the government to arrange a conveyance for the students to return home. My daughter Payal was preparing for UPSC in New Delhi, but when the government imposed the lockdown, she was facing difficulties in getting food everyday and was worried how will she be able to manage.”

The families of the students reached the railway station to pick them up while the district administration had arranged for nine buses to take the students to Ahmednagar, Beed and different talukas. “After a long wait of two months, I will be able to take my sister home. She somehow managed for two months and now will be all relaxed at home,” said Rahul Tajanpure, brother of a student.