Hyderabad: Even as the Centre directed the States to arrange trains to transport migrants, more than 200 of them have begun to walk towards their homes which are as far as Jharkhand, Bihar, UP from Tolichowki, Hyderabad.
On Saturday night, over 250 workers met the police at Limra check post and demanded that they be sent to their native places but the police turned them away. Further, a few of them were allegedly beaten by the police.
Srinivas, who is an officer on patrolling duty in the area said, “We have asked them to stay where they are as the Telangana government has allowed all construction work to restart and hence, told them that they need not panic.”
Upon speaking to the migrant workers, one of them said “We have not received food, ration or any help during the last few days and we have exhausted all our savings during the lockdown.”
In a GO dated April 29, the Telangana government stated that construction work and a few selected industries would be allowed to function in rural areas only but many of the daily wage workers who belong to unorganized sector, were employed by private contractors in the city, where the order isn’t applicable.
The migrant workers said “We do not want to ask for food anymore as we don’t receive it anyway. We want transport to be arranged to go back to our villages.”
