*6200 stranded Ladakhis reach Ladakh
Excelsior Correspondent
KARGIL, May 12: Chairman and Chief Executive Councillor, LAHDC, Kargil Feroz Ahmad Khan today said that LAHDC, Kargil was fully committed to ensure the evacuation of all passengers of Kargil district stranded in different parts of the country amid the lockdown triggered by COVID-19 pandemic and the process of evacuation of residents, patients and students into Ladakh UT has now picked up momentum as a result of the dedicated and coordinated efforts of the UT Administration Ladakh, the LAHDCs and the District Administration of both Kargil and Leh.
This was stated by CEC Kargil, Feroz Khan while addressing media persons at Council Secretariat here today.
He said that the process of influx of the residents and students was in full swing and till now more than 6000 people have already reached Kargil and Leh districts through special buses as well as private vehicles.
He said the evacuation into Ladakh has been ensured through 324 buses and 276 light vehicles, adding that proper screening of the passengers was being carried out at Meenamarg followed by segregation as per their zone wise travel history.
The CEC said that the inbound passengers of both Leh and Kargil district were being provided boarding and lodging facilities at Ladakh House, Kargil House, Boys Hostel Channi, Lungnaq Hostel Jammu and Youth Hostel Sonamarg while as the UT Administration Ladakh has been requested by the LAHDC, Kargil to arrange additional boarding and lodging facilities at these locations so that the process of evacuation of stranded Ladakhi people from different parts of the country is speeded up.
While speaking about the present status of evacuation of students and residents from different states outside J&K UT, the CEC said that while as 2 buses carrying students have already reached Kargil, 11 buses including 4 buses for Kargil from Delhi, 1 bus each from Sonipat and Jabalpur, 3 buses each from Bhopal, Gharwal and Dehradun, 2 buses from Himachal Pradesh, 5 buses from Chandigarh including 3 for Kargil have already left for their destination and 5 buses were in readiness to move from Dehradun.
The CEC said that on the intervention of the UT Administration Ladakh, special train service has been arranged for 230 Ladakhi students from Nagpur to Jammu on May 14, 2020 while as students from the Southern states like Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal will also be brought to Jammu in special trains for which the matter has already been taken up by the UT Administration Ladakh with the concerned authorities in these states.
Khan appealed people who are still stranded in different parts of the country to be patient and not panic as all stranded people would be brought back to their homeland in a phased manner.
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