Udupi: Hostel inmates request for help – DC, MLA show quick response


Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (HB)

Udupi, May 18: Deputy commissioner (DC) G Jagadeesha and MLA Raghupati Bhat helped 13 undergraduate students from Bengal who are stranded at Barkur government hostel after they sought help to get food and essentials from the public by posting a message on social media on Tuesday May 18.

One among the inmates posted a status on WhatsApp that 13 students of tea plantation worker families from Bengal are stuck at the hostel. Out of them, 7 had tested positive for Covid, three were negative and two did not undergo the RT-PCR. The medical team also arrived to the spot and collected the samples of those who had to undergo Covid test.

The students did not have food, medicines and oximeters.

Principal of Smt Rukmini Shedthi Memorial National Government First Grade College also came forward to help the students.

Some kind hearted locals from Barkur, Arun Kanchan and members of Nammuru Barkuru social media page friends helped them to get food, groceries and required medicines on the instructions given by DC G Jagadeesha and MLA Bhat.

Brahmavar tahsildar Kiran Goraiah provided food, vegetables and gas cylinder.

Pallavi conducted the health check-up of the students and said they have no health issues as such.

 

 

 

 

 

  

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