{"id":322642,"date":"2020-04-27T03:53:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T03:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322642"},"modified":"2020-04-27T04:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T04:56:04","slug":"covid-19-lockdown-391-students-return-to-assam-from-rajasthans-kota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-lockdown-391-students-return-to-assam-from-rajasthans-kota\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 lockdown: 391 students return to Assam from Rajasthan\u2019s Kota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322643 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/students-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"896\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/students-1.jpg 896w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/students-1-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/students-1-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/students-1-696x424.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/students-1-689x420.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/>A total of 391 students from Assam who were stranded in Rajasthan\u2019s Kota amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown\u00a0returned to their home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the government brought back 391 students who were stuck in Kota due to lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the Health Minister, the students have been sent to a 14-day quarantine to ensure safety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;After a long journey from Kota 391 children are back, with smiles &amp; cheers. To ensure they &amp; their families remain safe, we are putting them into 14-day quarantine. Today around 3 am, I &amp; @Pijush_hazarika received them and ensured smooth shifting at Sarusajai Sports Complex,&#8221; Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted on Monday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh had announced that 150 students from Kota are on their way to Punjab and buses will be sent to Jaisalmer to ferry stranded people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHappy to share with you all that 150 students from Kota are on their way to Punjab in 7 buses and will reach tomorrow morning. Also, 60 Punjab Govt buses are going to Jaisalmer to ferry around 2,700 Punjabis who are stranded in 5 relief camps there,\u201d Amarinder had tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 391 students from Assam who were stranded in Rajasthan\u2019s Kota amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown\u00a0returned to their home. Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the government brought back 391 students who were stuck in Kota due to lockdown. According to the Health Minister, the students have been sent to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2459,2030,2014],"tags":[1758,12750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322645,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322642\/revisions\/322645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}