10-05-2025
Telangana students from Punjab, J&K seek to return
Hyderabad: Even as India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire in the wake of Operation Sindoor, more than 100 students from Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, IIT Jammu, and other institutions in Srinagar reached the control room set up by the state govt at Telangana Bhavan in New Delhi.
Officials said they were making arrangements to send the students to Telangana. However, it was not immediately known if the students would alter their plans now that the ceasefire has been agreed students started reaching out to Telangana Bhavan from Friday night, with the first batch being from IIT Jammu and other institutions in Srinagar. On Saturday morning, students from LPU began arriving."They came to New Delhi by rail and road. We are providing accommodation, food, and transport facilities to them to reach their homes in Telangana. Many students booked flight tickets from Delhi. A few others are making plans to travel by car to Telangana. Some of the tickets are not confirmed, and we are trying to get them confirmed. More people are expected to reach out to us," Telangana Bhavan resident commissioner Gaurav Uppal told many students did not come back after the Pahalgam terrorist attack on April 22. However, after Operation Sindoor was launched in the early hours of May 7, parents of the students started calling them back."We too wanted to return to Telangana. We could hear loud sounds during the night. There was no confirmation, but we used to discuss in our hostel rooms that a drone or a missile could have gone over our campus. There are nearly 300 students from Telangana in LPU, and all of us decided to come back. Many have already reached their homes. A final decision was taken after the university postponed our exams," said Ashrith Satya Bitla, a first-year BTech student at Saturday afternoon, the control room at Telangana Bhavan had received nearly 100 calls from students and students and those working in areas that are close to the Pakistan Bhavan helplineLandline: 011-23380556Vandhana, private secretary to the resident commissioner & liaison head – 9871999044Haider Ali Naqvi, personal assistant to the resident commissioner – 9971387500G Rakshith Naik, liaison officer – 9643723157Ch Chakravarthy, public relations officer – 9949351270Free food and lodging facilities are being provided to Telangana citizens returning from bordering states at Telangana Bhavan. Medical camps have been established for health check-upsTelangana residents are being provided transportation assistance to the airport, railway stations, and bus stands.
