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17 Jun 2019

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India Today

39 workers return after being stranded in Saudi Arabia for a year

39 workers from Telangana... have returned... thanks to the efforts of the Centre and the Telangana government... these daily wage labourers went to the Gulf nation last year to work in a construction company... [The company] had allegedly not been paying salaries to them for the past six months and they were made to live in "terrible" condition, without proper food. The labourers wrote to Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working president K T Rama Rao, over Twitter, seeking his intervention... Rama Rao requested the Indian Embassy at Riyadh to help... [and] requested Telangana Chief Secretary SK Joshi to come up with a proper solution... The Indian Embassy arranged for temporary exit visas and also flight tickets for the stranded workers.

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