The Telangana government today sent 1,239 migrant workers, including 1,100 stranded in the IIT Hyderabad campus, to their native state Jharkhand, from the Lingampally railway station.
The authorities of the Sangareddy district transported the workers from the IIT Hyderabad campus in 50 buses to the railway station in the early hours of Friday.
District Collector Hanumantha Rao, SP Chandrasekhar Reddy and officials of the revenue and police departments bid farewell to the workers by clapping.
The train left the city at 4:50 am. It will reach Hatia in Jharkhand, according to reports.
For the uninitiated, the workers had
staged a protest on Wednesday demanding that the authorities allow them to return to their native places. They had also pelted stones and damaged police vehicles when the police tried to convince them to withdraw their protest.
24,564 migrant workers from Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal are engaged in the construction of buildings at the Kandi IIT.