564 stranded youngsters sent back to TN

Yavatmal: Finally, the 564 stranded youngsters hailing from different districts of Tamil Nadu have been sent home by special luxury buses on Tuesday late night.
It is merely because of the Good Samaritan’s role played by the Yavatmal SP M Rajkumar and his dedicated PI of Vasant Nagar police station of Pusad Pradeep Pardeshi.
Talking to TOI, Rajkumar expressed satisfaction for helping the stranded youngsters who were lured to Pusad under the guise of marketing training. Rajkumar has also extended his gratitude to the TOI team for throwing light over the harrowing experiences of the innocent victims.
“We examined all of them and issued health certificates. They were allowed to go back by scrupulously adhering to the norms of social distancing,” Rajkumar said, adding they had no impediments in Telengana and Andhra Pradesh. But in Karnataka, the police intercepted the vehicles on Wednesday and he had talked to his counterpart there and resolved the issue.
They are now permitted to move to Tamil Nadu over 1400 kms, he added.
The youths have to bear the travel expenses to the tune of Rs. 2500 each as both the Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu govts paid no heed towards their request for free transportation.
However, 27 os them had no money to bear the expense and so, we clubbed them with an NGO of Pusad and it has, along with the cops, borne their expenses.
“We hired 14 luxury buses. 42 boys were accommodated in each of them,” said Rajkumar, adding that buses were arranged according to their respective districts.
Regarding the Hingoli's 700 stranded guys, they ran off up to the National Highway in small groups and from there they managed to catch empty trucks plying on National highway towards Tamil Nadu. Almost all of them have left by now, said Rajkumar.
He had a number of calls from Miraj (Sangli district) where 610 Tamil boys are stranded and they too want to go back home.
"I have contacted the District Administration there and requested them to do the needful to transport the boys from Miraj. I was told that they would allow the boys to be dropped in Selam of Tamil Nadu. But the boys are reluctant to accept the condition and hence they are still stranded in Miraj," Rajkumar said, adding that a suitable solution would be found out soon.
Surprisingly, the Delhi based Glaze Trading India Company Pvt Ltd has cunningly skid their responsibilities by giving false clarification to the media.
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