The Kota administration in Rajasthan on Saturday specified the names of boarding points and reporting time for the students and parents from Chhattisgarh stranded in the coaching hub to board buses headed for the state on April 26.
The Kota authorities also released a mobile helpline number: 89590-88986 for the students and parents to contact to get the details of the boarding points and the schedule of the buses, an official release said.
The reporting time for the buses for the Bastar division—Kanker, Narayanpur, Kondagaon, Dantewada, Bijapur, Sukma and Bastar—will 4.00 pm while for Surguja division –Koriya, Balrampur, Surajpur, Jashpur and Surguja—will be 4.30 pm, the release said.
The timing for the Raipur division—Mahasamund, Baloda Bazaar, Gariaband, Raipur and Dhamtari—will be at 5.30 pm and for Durg division–Kawardha, Kabirdham, Bemetara, Durg, Balod, and Rajnandgaon—will be 6.30 pm, it said.
The reporting time for students from Bilaspur division –Bilaspur, Mungeli, Korba, Janjgir-Champa, Raigarh, and Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi—will be 7.00 pm, the release said.
Six busses have been allocated to the Bastar division, 24 for Surguja division, 16 for Raipur division, 14 for Durg division, and 28 Bilaspur division, while the boarding points for the buses include the Country Inn, Satyarth and Kunhadi in Kota city, the release said.
All the respective district education officers have been asked to coordinate with the students and the parents based in Kota for their safe return, it said.
In a significant relief for the students stranded in Rajasthan’s Kota district, the Chhattisgarh government on Friday sent 75 buses to the coaching hub to bring back more than 2,000 students hailing from different districts across the state.
Recently, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh brought back the stranded students from their states from Kota even as the lockdown continues and taking a cue from the other states, the Chhattisgarh chief minister too sought special permission from Union home minister Amit Shah by calling him on April 23.