A round 70 people returned to north Bengal on Wednesday when
the first train during the lockdown reached the New Jalpaiguri station
from New Delhi.
Another 120 people, who are from Assam and were
stranded in Siliguri and the surrounding areas, took the train for the
onward journey to Dibrugarh. The AC train had left New Delhi at 4.45pm
on Tuesday and is scheduled to reach Dibrugarh around 7am on Thursday.
Most
of the returnees were from the Darjeeling hills. The Gorkhaland
Territorial Administration had arranged for buses for them.
“All
the passengers who reached or left NJP were screened medically on the
station premises. They had to register their names and addresses at the
station. The luggage was sanitised,” said a source in the Northeast
Frontier Railway.
All passengers have been advised to go in home quarantine for 14 days.
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