In today’s national address, PM Modi announced that the nation wide lockdown has been extended till 3rd May 2020. While many of us knew that this lockdown ending won’t result in life going to normal, but there was at least some hope that there would be relaxation.
A few of my own friends and acquintances who have been stuck at various places were planning to go back to their home if transportation methods started up.
However, it seems unlikely that will happen with train services having been stopped till the date the new lockdown ends. More than anyone though, it is the out-station students stuck in Kota that are lamenting this extension.
So much so in fact that #SendUsBackHome has been trending on Indian Twitter since morning with students and their supporters asking the Indian government to figure out some way so that these students could return back to their families.
What Are Kota Students Asking For?
Kota students are essentially asking the government and official authorities to allow them to return to their homes where they feel safe.
Many Kota students are running out or are low on food and basic amenities, and although there are various NGOs and hostels that are giving out free food packets, it doesn’t seem enough.
Many of these students had come to Kota, a place in Rajasthan to prepare for entrance exams like Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) and National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). Kota is a hub for budding engineering and medical students with its many tuition and coaching centers that are all geared towards helping the students crack the very difficult entrance exams.
However, because of the lockdown that the PM announced on 24th March, many of the students got stuck in the city and could not go back to their homes.
But now with the announcement of the extension many of the students are asking that they somehow be allowed to return home with this starting the #SendUsBackHome even trending on Twitter.
Many students have stated that they are running out of financial funding and do not want to stay in their hostels.
The hashtag had more than 80,000 tweets around afternoon time itself.
A lot of Kota students have been tweeting how they would appreciate if they could return back to their home since living so far away from the family in such times of crisis was not good for them.
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@sarbanandsonwal Honourable CM of Assam many students of Assam are stuck in Kota. Please find a way out #SendUsBackHome #Assam https://t.co/Ya9Uj5f7wF
— Rishita Dutta (@RishitaDutta10) April 14, 2020
We know that all of you trying your best but we Kota students are now suffering here, our parents are worried plz #SendUsBackHome #ihoik @RajCMO @ombirlakota @ashokgehlot51
— It happens only In Kota (@ithappensinkota) April 14, 2020
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I am Safe at Home but many of my fellow Kotaites maybe not I sincerely hope that they would be send back to Home. Kota Students are now Suffering there, there Parents are Worried.
— Arsalan Khursheed (@ArsuKhursheed) April 14, 2020
Please #SendUsBackHome #ihoik @RajCMO @ombirlakota @narendramodi @PMOIndia @ashokgehlot51
With Due Respect In Education hub city kota….Now its like more difficut to be here without our family nd home
— Sujay Kumar (@sujaykumarnov) April 14, 2020
Sir…plss grant uss some facilities in terms of transport so that we reached to our safely..we will all be ever grateful to thIS #SendUsBackHome #ihoik @PMOIndia
Send us back home we are stuck in Kota and We can't study here now in this condition….We try our best to study but….We badly want to go to our parents so please do something #SendUsBackHome #IHOIK@narendramodi @PMOIndia @ashokgehlot51 @SachinPilot @RajCMO @SangmaConrad
— Aniket Kumar Choudhary (@AniketKumarCho8) April 14, 2020
We students stranded in Kota are suffering from immense mental instability, away from home in this hard times. Mess are getting closed day after days. Unable to study in these tensions.#sendUsBackHome@PMOIndia @ombirlakota @ashokgehlot51 @KotaPolice @ithappensinkota #IHOIK
— Asif Khan (@asi_f_khan) April 14, 2020
#SendUsBackHome @myogioffice @narendramodi @ashokgehlot51 @ombirlakota #covid19 Sir, I'm a student in Kota .But due to such a terrifying situation of corona virus that is continuously increasing day by day we are stucked in kota. so sir please help us to get back home. #helpus
— Shreya Ghosh (@Shreya2607) April 14, 2020
Many students have also taken to Instagram and YouTube to spread the message.
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Sources: Hindustan Times, Twitter
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