NEW DELHI: Delhi government is working out a plan to bring back students, pilgrims, tourists and city residents stranded in different parts of the country due to the lockdown. It will also facilitate the repatriation of people to their home states from the capital. After the Union home ministry permitted inter-state movement of stranded people on Wednesday, the state government has begun the planning for the exercise.
The people who want to leave Delhi will be screened and only those found asymptomatic of Covid-19 will be allowed to proceed. Those arriving in the capital too will be assessed by the health authorities and kept in home quarantine, unless they are determined to be requiring institutional quarantine. Under watch, such people will be subjected to periodic check-ups.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: “The Union home ministry has issued an order with regards to the migrants. We are talking to other states. You will be informed after we complete all the planning. Till then, stay at home and follow the lockdown.” It is likely that Delhi government will initiate an online application system for those outside Delhi wanting to return home.
A large number of competitive exams aspirants from Delhi are stranded in Rajasthan’s Kota district. Their parents have been requesting the government to evacuate them. There are students also stranded in Bengaluru, Pune and other places in India. The number of pilgrims and tourists stuck outside the city is not known, but they are estimated to be quite a few.
Tagore Garden resident Arun Singh, whose daughter is in Kota preparing for her medical entrance examination, said that most of his daughter’s hostel mates have left. “She has been pleading with us to bring her home. It is very difficult for us to see her in such a state,” he said.
Delhi government will designate nodal officers and develop standard operating protocols for sending and receiving stranded people.
People in Delhi will be registered with the resident commissioners of the various states. Transport is likely to be by road, and social distancing will be strictly followed in sanitised buses.
The government’s nodal officers will be in touch with the resident commissioners of other states for facilitating the movement of people to and from Delhi. At the moment, the majority of the migrant labourers are staying in government shelters and it will not be difficult for the state government to identify those willing to return home.
The people who want to leave Delhi will be screened and only those found asymptomatic of Covid-19 will be allowed to proceed. Those arriving in the capital too will be assessed by the health authorities and kept in home quarantine, unless they are determined to be requiring institutional quarantine. Under watch, such people will be subjected to periodic check-ups.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: “The Union home ministry has issued an order with regards to the migrants. We are talking to other states. You will be informed after we complete all the planning. Till then, stay at home and follow the lockdown.” It is likely that Delhi government will initiate an online application system for those outside Delhi wanting to return home.
A large number of competitive exams aspirants from Delhi are stranded in Rajasthan’s Kota district. Their parents have been requesting the government to evacuate them. There are students also stranded in Bengaluru, Pune and other places in India. The number of pilgrims and tourists stuck outside the city is not known, but they are estimated to be quite a few.
Tagore Garden resident Arun Singh, whose daughter is in Kota preparing for her medical entrance examination, said that most of his daughter’s hostel mates have left. “She has been pleading with us to bring her home. It is very difficult for us to see her in such a state,” he said.
Delhi government will designate nodal officers and develop standard operating protocols for sending and receiving stranded people.
People in Delhi will be registered with the resident commissioners of the various states. Transport is likely to be by road, and social distancing will be strictly followed in sanitised buses.
The government’s nodal officers will be in touch with the resident commissioners of other states for facilitating the movement of people to and from Delhi. At the moment, the majority of the migrant labourers are staying in government shelters and it will not be difficult for the state government to identify those willing to return home.
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