May 5, 2020 11:32 AM

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Students stranded in other states return to Telangana

<span style="color: #222222;">Telangana state authorities have taken up the task of bringing home hundreds of students who stranded in other states due to lockdown and sending migrant workers to their home states on priority basis. The activity began following relaxations announced by the Union Home ministry. Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao has announced after a high-level review meeting that migrants will be sent to their home states in 40 special trains.</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />'' </span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />'' </span><span style="color: #222222;">AIR Correspondent reports that over 600 students stranded in Andhra Pradesh and Maharastra due to the lockdown have been brought back home to Telangana in over 20 buses late in last evening. </span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />'' </span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />'' </span><span style="color: #222222;">They have gone to Nandyal town in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh state for coaching in bank exams before the lockdown. Buses carrying students entered the state border in Mahabubnagar during late hours last night.</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />'' </span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />'' </span><span style="color: #222222;">The authorities informed that after health check-ups, those who have no symptoms of coronavirus will be sent to their villages for home quarantine for two weeks.</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />'' </span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />'' </span><span style="color: #222222;">Arrangements also have been made to bring back another group of 30 students who were stranded in Amaravathi in Maharastra by bus. Meanwhile, the state government has announced that 40 special trains will be operated from the state every day for one week to send migrant workers back to their states.</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />'' </span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />'' </span><span style="color: #222222;">The trains will be operated from various parts of the state including Hyderabad, Warangal, Khammam, Ramagundam and Damaracharla to states like Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and others. Meanwhile, police are issuing permission letters to those migrant workers who want to bear their travel expenses and the migrants are leaving in private buses.</span><br />

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