36 students from AP, Telangana stranded in Leh

Following extensive flooding in their campus at Srinagar, the engineering students moved to a shelter in the Leh region. Mr. Jagannadha Rao approached Panchayati Raj Minister Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu for help.

Students of Hyderabad origin who were studying in National Institute of Technology at Srinagar, land at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad on Thursday night. Photo: Satyanarayana Gola

In all, 36 students from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, who are pursuing their engineering course at NIT-Srinangar, are stranded in the Leh region in the flood-affected State of Jammu and Kashmir.

It is learnt that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, on receiving a message to this effect from the father of one of the students, has ordered airlifting of the stranded youths to Chandigarh, from where they will be sent to their respective homes.

Sai Karthik from Chodavaram in Visakhapatnam district, who was among the stranded students, contacted his father Jagannadha Rao, an advocate, over cellphone and expressed fears over flooding of their shelter.

Mr. Jagannadha Rao approached Panchayati Raj Minister Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu for help. The Minister immediately took up the issue with the Chief Minister’s Office and also with Union Minister for Civil Aviation P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju.

Move to shelter Following extensive flooding in the State and their campus at Srinagar, the students reportedly moved to a shelter in the Leh region. As the situation worsened in Leh too, the students sought their parents help.