Around 50 students from hostels run by the Social Welfare Department in Mumbai's Worli area have requested the state government to let them go home amid the lockdown.
While the department has ensured that these students are provided with food, a majority of them hail from rural Maharashtra and are scared due to the increasing number of COVID-19 patients in Mumbai &mdash; particularly in Worli.
There are three Social Welfare Department-run hostels in Worli's BDD Chawls &mdash; building number 116 and 118. While the hostel in building 118 is a boy's hostel, building number 116 has both boys and girls.
<img title="Ashok Bansode, resident student" src="https://images.mid-day.com/images/2020/may/doctor-may-seven-pic-b.jpg" alt="Ashok Bansode, resident student" /> Ashok Bansode, resident student
Ashok Bansode, an engineering student who hails from Akkalkot in Solapur said, "Initially, we were getting proper food. But as the cases kept rising in Worli area, restrictions came in place and now we are just being served dal and rice every day. We are also wondering whether or not the department will take responsibility for us."
The hostel management asked the students to get their medical check-ups done before seeking permission to travel home. But considering their financial conditions, nobody has money to arrange for private transportation.
"The way arrangements were done for students in Kota, we should also be given such help. We cannot arrange for our own transportation," Bansode added.
Suraj Kamble, another resident student said, "We should be taken home directly where we can remain in home quarantine. But if we are sent to any institutional quarantine or told to travel through railways, that can put us in danger of contracting the virus. All the Kota students are in home quarantine currently,"
Sachin Bansode, member of Chhatrabharati &mdash; a students' organisation which is helping these stranded students to go back home &mdash; said, "These students too have the right to go back home. Many of them are from rural parts of Maharashtra and don't have funds to head home on their own. We are in the process of understanding how they can be helped without compromising on safety."
Three Total no. of Social Welfare Department hostels in BDD chawl
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