Satish Aditya
Motihari : A 24 coach special train from educational hub Kota i n Rajsthan arrived at Bapudham-Motihari railway station with 1,646 students including girls at 5 am on May 7, 2020. The students were very happy after reaching their home state. They were welcomed by senior administrative, police, and health officials on Platform No.1 and provided breakfast packets, water bottles and tea.
The students were taken out of the coaches one by one and East Champaran DM Shirshat Kapil Ashok and SP Navin Chandra Jha were
offering marigold flower to them with a request to maintain social distance during home quarantine period.
Station Superintendent Rakesh Tripathy said the platform and station circulating area was sanitised and GRP and RPF personnel were deployed around the station. A list of detailed passenger list was prepared with their cellphone numbers by administration to monitor the arrival of students.
DM Shirshat Kapil Ashok talking to this scribe said that all the officials and policemen were on their toes to ensure compliance of social distancing and other preventive measures at the time of arrival of students. Twenty-four medical teams were pressed into to service for carrying out thermal screening of students.
Barricading had been done around the railway station to regulate the crowd and guardians of students. Out of 1,646 students who arrived at the station, 550 belonged to East Champaran, 750 to West Champaran, and 346 to Gopalganj districts, all in North Bihar .They were sent to their respective district quarantine centres by 66 santitised buses arranged by the administration. According to the doctors engaged in screening of students, all the students were found asymptomatic. The students of Motihari town were handed over to their guardians after screening at local Rajendra Town hall by the administration.