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VALPOI
Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik on Wednesday assured parents and teachers of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) at Valpoi that he would pay special attention and make special efforts to get back the Valpoi JNV students who have been stranded in New Delhi.
The union minister gave the assurance when a team from the Valpoi JNV’s PTA met him at his residence to seek his intervention in the matter.
According to the PTA, 15 schoolchildren of the Valpoi JNV had gone to New Delhi, while 19 schoolchildren from the New Delhi JNV had come to Valpoi, as part of an exchange programme and were due to return to their respective states, when the lockdown was announced. Since then, these students have been stranded and are unable to return to their respective states.
On Wednesday, PTA President Rajendra Gawas and some office bearers met Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik at his residence to brief him about the situation.
After listening to Gawas, Shripad Naik assured that he would make every effort to take care of these Valpoi JNV schoolchildren stranded in New Delhi and ensure their return to Goa.
Naik, however, expressed displeasure with the school management and principal for their handling of the situation, which had left the Valpoi JNV schoolchildren stranded for over a month.
Earlier on April 25, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had advised Goan students stuck in other Indian states during the lockdown to begin applying online for permission from the collectorates concerned to return home.
“Goan native students in other states can ask collectors concerned in the state they are for permission to return home. Permission will be granted online on a case-to-case basis,” CM Sawant had stated.
He said that upon their return they would be tested for Covid-19 and would be placed under government quarantine or home quarantine.
