Ranchi: Jharkhand government on Wednesday hinted it will bide time before implementing the Centre’s new guidelines on bringing back stranded students and workers during the lockdown.
“I have not received a copy of the Centre’s guidelines yet. When it comes, it will be deliberated upon by the chief minister (Hemant Soren),” transport minister Champai Soren told TOI.
The Union home ministry’s guidelines, issued to all states and Union territories, mandate the governments to designate nodal authorities, coordinate and mutually agree among themselves before sending and receiving batches of students, workers, tourists and pilgrims.
Inter-state movement will be allowed only after screening. Once in their respective states, the persons will have to be screened again and sent on home quarantine. Buses will have to be used for the journey and social distancing must be observed during the transit.
Former chief minister Raghubar Das thanked Union home minister Amit Shah. “Now, the state government must bring them home as soon as possible so that their troubles come to an end,” Das said. The former CM’s statement was echoed by BJP’s Jharkhand president Deepak Prakash and its Rajya Sabha member Mahesh Poddar on Twitter.
Chief secretary Sukhdev Singh and transport secretary K Ravikumar did not respond when contacted. As per Jharkhand government’s estimates, over 8.1 lakh residents are stranded nationwide in the lockdown.
While the Mahagathbandhan government remained indecisive on bringing back stranded students, BJP’s legislative party leader Babulal Marandi urged the party’s MPs to take the initiative themselves.
The former chief minister, in a tweet, tagged BJP’s Jharkhand MPs Arjun Munda (Khunti), Jayant Sinha (Hazaribag), Sudarshan Bhagat (Lohardaga) and the party’s state organisational secretary Dharampal Singh, and wrote, “I appeal to the MPs that like Nishikant Dubey, they must make efforts to help stranded students return.”
Politicking in Jharkhand over students stranded in Rajasthan’s Kota has reached a fever pitch in the past few days. The BJP is mounting pressure on the JMM-led government to bring back stranded students like others such as Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, the government, however, is yet to make a move.
“I have not received a copy of the Centre’s guidelines yet. When it comes, it will be deliberated upon by the chief minister (Hemant Soren),” transport minister Champai Soren told TOI.
The Union home ministry’s guidelines, issued to all states and Union territories, mandate the governments to designate nodal authorities, coordinate and mutually agree among themselves before sending and receiving batches of students, workers, tourists and pilgrims.
Inter-state movement will be allowed only after screening. Once in their respective states, the persons will have to be screened again and sent on home quarantine. Buses will have to be used for the journey and social distancing must be observed during the transit.
Former chief minister Raghubar Das thanked Union home minister Amit Shah. “Now, the state government must bring them home as soon as possible so that their troubles come to an end,” Das said. The former CM’s statement was echoed by BJP’s Jharkhand president Deepak Prakash and its Rajya Sabha member Mahesh Poddar on Twitter.
Chief secretary Sukhdev Singh and transport secretary K Ravikumar did not respond when contacted. As per Jharkhand government’s estimates, over 8.1 lakh residents are stranded nationwide in the lockdown.
While the Mahagathbandhan government remained indecisive on bringing back stranded students, BJP’s legislative party leader Babulal Marandi urged the party’s MPs to take the initiative themselves.
The former chief minister, in a tweet, tagged BJP’s Jharkhand MPs Arjun Munda (Khunti), Jayant Sinha (Hazaribag), Sudarshan Bhagat (Lohardaga) and the party’s state organisational secretary Dharampal Singh, and wrote, “I appeal to the MPs that like Nishikant Dubey, they must make efforts to help stranded students return.”
Politicking in Jharkhand over students stranded in Rajasthan’s Kota has reached a fever pitch in the past few days. The BJP is mounting pressure on the JMM-led government to bring back stranded students like others such as Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, the government, however, is yet to make a move.
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