bengaluru those who returned to bengaluru on a passenger train from new delhi were welcomed at ksr railway station with a rude shock and a choice they would have to compulsorily spend the next 14 days under quarantine in hotels which they would have to pay for the solace was they could choose the hotelpassengers were caught off guard saying they had no clue the state had unleashed what in their eyes was a draconian measure many said they had expected to go into home quarantine and would have rather stayed back if they had known better while some travellers accepted the governments paid quarantine plan after much reluctance at least a couple of hundred refused it outrightthey launched an impromptu protest inside the waiting room of the station demanding the government send them back home many protesters toi spoke with said they didnt have the money to pay for quarantine and the policy was only akin to rubbing salt in ones wounds after a nightmarish journey the train left delhi at 915pm on tuesday and reached here at 718am on thursdaythey said they had endured hardships wherever they were stranded during the lockdown only banking on the hope of returning home safe and now their home state had deprived them of a considerate homecoming many passengers shelled out fares as high as rs 6255we did not have even a single drop of water to drink on the train said ramesh p who had travelled from bhopal the railways did not supply either food or water and the restrooms are something i do not even want to discussdivya sriram who boarded the train in delhi said it has been 34 hours since she used the restroom because the train toilets were filthy this after paying through their nose for a ticket there was neither water nor a tissue roll how do they expect us to use the bathrooms on reaching bengaluru officials are asking to go into institutional quarantine where is the money divya saidavinash rl who had travelled from bhopal said the government here and officials are miserable misers they are not even providing free drinking watersome were accompanied by senior citizens padmaja p who arrived from hyderabad with her two elderly parents said i asked for one room since three of us need to stay together but they said we need to take two rooms with a rs 1500 tariff each for 14 days my parents are old and we would have preferred to stay homemany were seen struggling to mobilise money for institutional quarantine roshan k said they asked me to choose between paid hotels or free government hostels i opted for the latter but dont know how their condition will bebbmp health officials who were deployed at the station to help facilitate the transfer to quarantine facilities said they were taking no chanceswe do not want the virus to spread people may not maintain social distancing if they go home let us wait for a