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KCR asks migrants not to walk home, directs officials to arrange transport

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Hyderabad: Taking cognisance of migrant workers leaving for their home states on foot, Telangana chief minister K.

Chandrashekhar Rao on Thursday instructed officials concerned to ensure that no migrant worker should have to walk back home.

Rao instructed chief secretary Somesh Kumar to arrange trains and if need be, buses for the same. Rao also appealed to migrant workers not walk back to their native places, stating that the state government would take the responsibility of transporting them to their native places.

Over the past few weeks, scores of migrants have been walking back home from Telangana’s capital Hyderabad. The nearly two-month long lock down in the state had forced thousands of them to return home, as they had no means of

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