3,000 migrant workers stage protest in Hyderabad's Tellapur

Hyderabad | Sunday | 3rd May, 2020

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V Nilesh ByExpress News ServiceHYDERABAD: Just days after migrant labourers protested at IIT-Hyderabad wanting to back home, several migrant labourers staged a protest on Saturday in Tellapur at the construction site of a well-known real estate developer. Police officials swung into action to pacify an estimated 3,000 labourers at the site. Since the Central government has given the nod for construction activity to start if workers are available at the site, the labourers were told to start working from Monday. Besides, they were given only meagre rations, forcing them to spend money out of their own pockets. Now we are being forced to work in such conditions.” Many of the workers at the site said they were ready to walk back home if allowed..