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Steps on to ensure safe return of TN students from Kashmir and Punjab
The New Indian Express Tiruchy
|May 10, 2025
AMID escalating tensions along the border, the Tamil Nadu government has intensified efforts to ensure the safe return of 52 students (from TN) studying in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and 40 other TN students studying in a university in Punjab.
According to a government statement, four other TN students, who had gone to J&K on an educational tour, will return to Chennai on Saturday morning.
The 52 TN students, who are caught in the crossfire amid increasing tensions between India and Pakistan, have been pursuing higher education in J&K across various disciplines such as agriculture, horticulture, fisheries, sericulture, fashion design (NIFT), and engineering (NIT).
Following directions from TN Chief Minister M K Stalin, senior officials, including Pudukkottai Additional Collector (Development) Aftab Rasool, IAS, and Tamil Nadu House Commissioner in New Delhi, Ashish Kumar, IAS, are in constant contact with the students and coordinating evacuation efforts on the ground, the statement said.
This story is from the May 10, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Tiruchy.
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