Stalled travel, peaked living costs and diminished employment opportunities. That’s what 2 lakh immigrants from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have in store, thanks to Gulf Cooperation Council’s blockade and boycott of Qatar...43,000 people from the two States who were expected to travel from Doha to Hyderabad after Ramzan in the months of June, July and August will now have to reschedule their trips or cancel altogether as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will not fly their airlines to Qatar or allow connecting flights from Doha to fly over their territory...Living in Qatar is also expected to get dearer with the blockade imposed on exports to Qatar from GCC Countries. As much as 95 per cent Telugu immigrants in Qatar are blue collar workers who earn between ₹10,000 and ₹25,000 [$156 to $390] per month....G. Ravi a concrete pump technician who has been living in Qatar for seven years said if the crisis deepens, he will have to shell out 920 Qatar Riyals more than his original airfare...“Markets here are flooded and the monthly spending of 228-300 Riyals will go up as people have started hoarding already,” Ravi said...In the past three years, Telugu states had contributed an additional workforce of 30,000 labourers to man Qatar’s 2022 World Cup constructions...