AP students return from Manipur

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra students stranded in insurgency-hit Manipur started returning to AP through special flights. A team of AP officials have made arrangements for their safe return home.
 
YSR Congress MP Margani Bharat welcomed Andhra students at Hyderabad airport and said that these students were being sent to their native places by special buses arranged by the AP government.
 
According to the officials, 108 students reached Hyderabad by two special flights and AP officials were sending them to their native places through buses and four-wheelers. The rest of the stranded students would reach Hyderabad by Monday night and could be shifted to their native places thereafter.
 
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, Mutyala Raju, secretary to CM Jagan, said two special flights from Imphal with Andhra students reached Hyderabad. “CM Jagan arranged the special flights for the students,” he said.
 
He said the students were shifted from their hostels to Imphal airport amid tight security and AP government was bearing all the expenses including transport, boarding and lodging facilities for the students in this connection.
 
Mutyala Raju said while 108 students reached Hyderabad in the first flight, the rest of the students would come by another special flight from Kolkata. AP officials provided accommodation facilities to a total of 161 students and arranged three buses for them to go to Vijayawada, Guntur, Chittoor, Kurnool, Visakhapatnam and other areas, he said.
 
“The government would continue the rescue operation till the last stranded person is brought back. “A total of four buses with the students reached various places in AP and we are arranging cars to shift students to other areas on Monday night,” Mutyala Raju said.
 
MP Bharat said the Jagan government arranged buses to Rayalaseema, coastal Andhra and north Andhra with police escort.
 
Two buses with Andhra students reached Vijayawada on Monday night with 38 students heading for Visakhapatnam, West Godavari, Srikakulam, Eluru, East Godavari, Vizianagaram, Konaseema Guntur, Machilipatnam, Nellore, Narasaraopet and Palnadu.
 
The students said they were frightened due to the violence in Manipur and at times screamed for help. “We faced a lot of difficulties to get drinking water and food. They expressed happiness that CM Jagan and education minister Botsa Satyanarayana as also MP Bharat and officials worked hard to reach them back home.