T workers in Saudi to fly home

T workers in Saudi to fly home

Sushil.Rao@timesgroup.com

Hyderabad: 25.06.2020

Hundreds of workers from the Telugu states are set to return home from Saudi Arabia as a company they were employed with has organised chartered flights for them.

The first such flight will land in Hyderabad on Wednesday from Dammam, Saudi Arabia. However, getting permission to land has not been easy for the company.

Social worker and MBT leader Amjed Ullah Khan told TOI that the workers could not travel by the Vande Bharat flights as they could not be accommodated.

Expertise Contracting Company, which had employed the workers, organised chartered flights to ferry the workers to their respective states in India. Amjed Ullah Khan brought to the notice of the union civil aviation ministry the plight of workers stuck in Saudi Arabia though the company had taken the responsibility to fly them back in chartered flights. The issue was also taken up with the state government.

In a letter to the secretary, ministry of external affairs, the principal secretary (political), general administration department of Telangana on June 20 informed that the state had approved landing of a chartered flight from Dammam on June 25 in Hyderabad following a representation from Mohammed Ashraf of Expertise Contracting Company.

The company has so far arranged nine flights to Chennai, Mangalore, Delhi, Mumbai and Kochi and the plan was to operate a flight to Hyderabad on June 13, but it did not get permission to land in Hyderabad.

Stranded to return from Bahrain

Hyderabad:

As many as 279 people from Telangana stuck in Bahrain will soon return to the state . The stranded include workers who lost their jobs and those who had gone on a tour. A special flight has been arranged by the Indian Club in Bahrain to send back the stranded. TNN