GUWAHATI: Over three thousand home-bound people of Assam from outside and within the northeastern region entered the state on the first day of opening of the inter-state borders on Sunday, which were sealed for 40 days due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
The state at the moment is allowing only those people to enter, who can travel on own arrangement. Those coming from outside the region have to register and take the entry permit. For those coming from other northeastern region, it’s a free movement.
Those stuck outside the region and cannot travel on own means will have to wait for sometime until the Assam government requisitions trains to bring them. “We are in the process of registering those who want to come by train and only after that we will send our requisition to Indian railways. We can only bring 1000 people in one train,” Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
Many walked for kilometers and some hitched hikes to reach the entry points on the several inter-state borders that Assam shares with its seven neighbours from where they were picked up by Assam Transport Corporation buses and transported them to their home destinations. Many others managed their own transportation by personal or hired vehicles.
Sarma said, “So far 3760 people have come in from northeastern states and outside the region. Many are travelling on own means from places far away like Gujarat and Maharashtra.”
More than 770 persons, who travelled from outside the region checked in at the Srirampur entry point in Kokrajhar district on the Assam-West Bengal border where thorough health checkup is being done. Anyone found with Covid-19 symptoms will be taken to a quarantine facility and the rest will be sent for home quarantine.
“There were 1301 people, who came in through Baxirhat in Dhubri district but most of them are truck drivers and handymen,” Sarma added.
Among those who came in from the northeastern states through several entry points, 900 came from Meghalaya, 1000 from Arunachal Pradesh, 312 from Tripura, 50 from Mizoram, 60 from Manipur and 15 from Nagaland.
The state at the moment is allowing only those people to enter, who can travel on own arrangement. Those coming from outside the region have to register and take the entry permit. For those coming from other northeastern region, it’s a free movement.
Those stuck outside the region and cannot travel on own means will have to wait for sometime until the Assam government requisitions trains to bring them. “We are in the process of registering those who want to come by train and only after that we will send our requisition to Indian railways. We can only bring 1000 people in one train,” Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.
Many walked for kilometers and some hitched hikes to reach the entry points on the several inter-state borders that Assam shares with its seven neighbours from where they were picked up by Assam Transport Corporation buses and transported them to their home destinations. Many others managed their own transportation by personal or hired vehicles.
Sarma said, “So far 3760 people have come in from northeastern states and outside the region. Many are travelling on own means from places far away like Gujarat and Maharashtra.”
More than 770 persons, who travelled from outside the region checked in at the Srirampur entry point in Kokrajhar district on the Assam-West Bengal border where thorough health checkup is being done. Anyone found with Covid-19 symptoms will be taken to a quarantine facility and the rest will be sent for home quarantine.
“There were 1301 people, who came in through Baxirhat in Dhubri district but most of them are truck drivers and handymen,” Sarma added.
Among those who came in from the northeastern states through several entry points, 900 came from Meghalaya, 1000 from Arunachal Pradesh, 312 from Tripura, 50 from Mizoram, 60 from Manipur and 15 from Nagaland.
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