Rajasthan leveraging technology for students’ safety

Rajasthan is leveraging technology extensively to enable stranded students in Kota to return to their homes.

So far, more than 27,000 students have been re-partriated, out of which 12215 are from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, 2,813 from Madhya Pradesh, 342 from Gujarat, 3,000 from Bengal, 2000 from Maharashtra and 38 from Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

Similarly, 2,200 students hailing from Rajasthan have been sent to their respective native districts.

District Administration is providing end-to-end support which includes data collection, state-wise sorting of the data and location-wise sorting of the number of students from each state so that the government can arrange transportation for these students.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has appealed to the respective state governments to come forward to help these students to return their homes on humanitarian grounds.

"It is our duty to send kids back to their home. These are teenagers living away from their parents and preparing for examinations. We do not want them to struggle with anxiety due to lock down and hence we are putting all the efforts to make sure they reach back home safely. We have been co-ordinating with all the CMs of other States as well to ensure safety and security of the children," said the Chief Minister.

The CM added, "The government has been working to bring migrant labourers in other States back home as well."

"Kota is the city which is the education capital of India and students from all the 35 states and union territories come here to study and fulfill their dreams, we requested the ministry of home affairs to prepare guidelines so that we can send back the kids to their home all the governments from various States have coordinated well enough and more than 70% of kids have been sent back home in a great manner and a very safe manner," said Om Birla, Speaker, Lok Sabha.

As a first step of the repatriation process, students are required to fill in the Form created by administration which is sent to all students. The students are required to provide their name contact number, state district and boarding location and coaching ID proof. Team is actively compiling and sorting the data according to the states. After data sorting, buses are being organised wrt number of students per boarding locations and students is notified of its reporting time.