LPU sends 101 Lankan students back home
Jalandhar/UNI: The Lovely Professional University (LPU), after coordinating with the Government of Sri Lanka, External Affairs Ministry of India and the Sri Lankan Embassy in India, on Thursday managed to send 101 of it's Lankan students in a special chartered flight to their native country.
In this regard, a batch of these Lankan students was sent from Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport at Amritsar in Punjab, after necessary health screening.
The students left LPU Campus for Amritsar Airport at 0430 hrs in three special buses, following the pandemic directives of COVID-19.
At Amritsar, the students boarded the specially chartered Sri Lankan Airlines' flight for their home country.
During the whole process, social distancing was maintained and students were screened on various health parameters by medical specialists at the LPU Campus, as well as by the Health Department of Punjab government.
Head Division of International Affairs at LPU, Aman Mittal said the LPU was in touch with the government of Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan Embassy in New Delhi for many weeks to transit the students back to their home country.
In this context, the varsity wrote a request letter to President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksha, which was acceded.
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