Kota: Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla asked Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal to arrange another special train for students stuck in Kota after the train which departed for Begusarai at 11: 00 am was full with the passengers.
However, the railways immediately arranged another train for remaining students which departed at 3:45 pm for Barauli in Bihar.
1,211 students seated in 24 coaches departed from Kota for Begusarai around 11 noon, but another 10,000 still remained stuck in the city.
The district administration immediately urged for another train for the stranded students.
The train was sanitised and was ready to depart with 1,050 students within two and a half hours.
DRM Pankaj Sharma, ADRM Vineet Pandey, Senior DCM Vijay Prakash and Senior Divisional Safety Commissioner Vijay Pandit were looking after the entire management.
The Barauli-Begusarai train will reach Barauli at 11 am on Monday via Bayana, Tundla, Kanpur, Deendayal, Upadhyay and Darapur.
Over 12,000 students from different parts of Bihar had been stuck in Kota since the lockdown began on March 25. They had repeatedly urged the Bihar government to ensure their safe return to their homes amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Some students had even staged a protest near their hostels against the Bihar government.
But Chief Minister Nitish Kumar refused to arrange for the travel of the migrants, saying doing so would compromise the fight against the virus.
He has been criticised for his stance, especially after the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh sent buses to Kota to bring its students, with the opposition RJD calling Kumar totally confused.
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