45 Telangana workers lose jobs as Oman firm shuts

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Sep 13, 2019, 10:06 IST

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45 Telangana workers lose jobs as Oman firm shuts

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HYDERABAD: With a major construction company going into liquidation in Muscat, Oman, as many as 45 Telangana workers are now in dire straits as they have not been paid salaries for the last one year. On Thursday, a group of 13 workers from the company returned to India, including 11 from Telangana, one from Andhra Pradesh and another from Karnataka.
Most of the 600 workers who were employed with the company are said to be Indians, according to Mandha Bheem Reddy, president of the Emigrants Welfare Forum.

Surender Singh Thakur, a member of the forum who received the workers at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport said the state government had given Rs 1,000 to each of the workers for their transport to return to their hometowns. He urged the government to provide the workers employment opportunities in the country.
Among the workers were five from Kamareddy, two from Jagtial and two from Nirmal. The Oman Telangana Friends also provided some monetary assistance to workers before they left Muscat.

According to Pampiri Gopal, a worker from Chinnamallareddy in Machareddy mandal, Kamareddy who returned said the company owed at least Rs 1 crore to all Telangana workers who had not been paid for the last one year.
Ganishetty Srinivas from Sancharla in Pegadapalli mandal, Jagtial, who was among those who returned, said they had struggled in Muscat and were deprived of their wages. He urged the Centre and state governments to take up their issue with authorities in Muscat and see to it that the workers get back their salary dues.

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Ch Sushil Rao

Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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