COVID-19: New MHA order allows stranded students to go home
Team Careers360 | April 29, 2020 | 06:25 PM IST
NEW DELHI: Ministry of Home Affairs has issued an order to states and Union Territories to facilitate the inter-state movement of stranded people including students. All the states have been asked to designate nodal authorities and develop standard protocols for receiving and sending stranded persons.
With millions of people stranded in different parts of the country due to lockdown imposed by the centre from March 25, the MHA has issued fresh guidelines to allow for their movement.
As per the revised guidelines, all persons are to be medically screened at source and destination and should be quarantined on arrival.
MHA Order
The new guideline says: “Due to lockdown, migrant workers, pilgrims, tourists, students and other persons are stranded at different places.” It has asked states to designate nodal authorities for the same, which shall also register the stranded persons within their states or UTs. It states that the moving persons are to be screened and those found asymptomatic be allowed to proceed. “Buses shall be used for transport of groups of persons, the buses will be sanitized and shall follow safe social distancing norms in seating,” it adds.
On reaching their home states, the moving persons will be assessed by the local health authorities, and kept in home quarantine, unless the assessment requires keeping in institutional quarantine.
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