Guest workers leave for home

About 1,100 guest workers hailing from different states, stranded in and around the IT corridor due to the lockdown, were allowed to travel by Shramik Special trains on Monday night.

The workers living in different parts of the IT corridor and working in the hotel industry were to embark from four railway stations to their native states.

On Sunday night, 554 guest workers living in

Madhapur in Cyberabad registered with the police to go to their native states. They were picked up from a pre-arranged point in special buses and transported to the railway stations. Fourteen who registered turn up.

On Monday, 600 guest workers hailing from Odisha, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, were picked up from Shilpakala Vedika in Madhapur by special buses and transported to the railway stations for the Shramik special trains.

Inspector S. Venkat Reddy of the Madhapur police said that for another three days, guest workers from different states living within the limits of the police station will be of those did not provided transport.

“The workers are being sent to railway stations at Lingampally, Bolaram, Nagulapally and Ghatkesar from Hi-tech city on special buses with 30 persons on each bus. About 600 workers are being sent every day,” said the inspector, adding that the trains start between 8 pm and 12 am.

He said that the workers, who are mostly working in the hospitality and food chain industries, are willing to return to Hyderabad for work after the end of the lockdown.