Body of Telangana worker yet to arrive from Iraq

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Updated: Jul 28, 2020, 10:51 IST

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Nearly a month after he had died of cancer at Erbil in Iraq, a Nizamabad worker’s body is yet to be sent home. Social workers in Iraq approached the Consulate General of India (CGI) in Erbil to facilitate the transportation of the mortal remains of 46-year-old Parymola Bojanna.

Body of Telangana worker yet to arrive from Iraq

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HYDERABAD: Nearly a month after he had died of cancer at Erbil in Iraq, a Nizamabad worker’s body is yet to be sent home. Social workers in Iraq approached the Consulate General of India (CGI) in Erbil to facilitate the transportation of the mortal remains of 46-year-old Parymola Bojanna.
In response to a mail from Naveen Achari, general secretary of Telangana Jagruthi, CGI Erbil said Bojanna’s body would be sent on July 23 or July 25.

This, however, did not happen. “We have been informed it would be sent on July 30,” Naveen said. The expenditure for transportation of the body is being borne by Indian community welfare fund.
Bojanna died on June 29. According to a medical report issued by the Kurdistan regional government, he died of lung cancer. He took part in a protest in front of CGI office demanding that he along with others be accommodated on the Vande Bharat flights to India since he was unwell.
He hailed from Dharpally in Nizamabad.

Social workers have also approached the CGI to send the body of 50-year-old Kondagurla Shankar, who died on July 22. Some workers had literally carried an unwell Shankar to the CGI office to show that his condition was critical and that his travel to India should be facilitated. hankar’s family belongs to Jannaram mandal in Mancherial.

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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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