No flight from Saudi leaves T workers upset

Sushil.Rao@timesgroup.com

Hyderabad:30.06.2020

Many people from Telangana, eager to return home from Gulf, were left disappointed as no flight has been scheduled from Saudi Arabia to Hyderabad during the fourth phase of Vande Bharat mission.

In the fourth phase that has been announced from Jeddah, flights will be operated to Kerala and Delhi, but no flight has been scheduled to land in Hyderabad. The Indian embassy in Riyadh announced the flight schedule to repatriate Indians in the wake of prevailing Covid-19 situation and extended lockdown. Mohammed Abdul Sayeed tweeted: “Not a single flight for Hyderabad? When will the embassy consider us as humans? We are being neglected. It has been eight months and we have not got (any) help. I am stuck here with family, two kids and with no job.”

Fahad Maqsusi, who was waiting to travel to Hyderabad, tweeted, “Not a single flight to Hyderabad? What is going on?” He also addressed chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, wondering if the government had decided to not permit flights to Hyderabad from Saudi, at least permission should be given for chartered flights. “Please understand the need, people are going into depression and falling sick,” he said.