MARGAO: Twenty-one persons from Bangalore and Belgaum returned to Goa in a private bus on Friday.
The exercise, an initiative of an NGO, was successfully completed with the help of the Collector, Chief Secretary and Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco.
Lourenco, explaining the initiative, said that 18 students and three others were brought back from Bangalore and Belgaum, and flayed the government for having failed to get back Goans stranded in other States.
Lourenco said, “I commend the effort of the NGO and the help rendered by the Collector, Chief Secretary for having permitted to send the vehicle to get the stranded Goans back. The government must tell us if they are unable to get Goans back.”
The MLA also criticised the government for having stamped the drivers and helpers for quarantine, while he claimed that operators of mining trucks and vegetable vehicles are not being stamped.
Some of the students who returned said coming home was a big relief for them.
Shabuddin Shaikh, who assisted in the return operation, said the police at every district on the way harassed them asking various questions and holding them up for over two hours at every stop.