Hyderabad: They hit the road with leftovers

HYDERABAD: Workers from Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra who are stranded in different locations across the city are picking up leftover food from the donations by residents and planning to hit the streets now.
“A lot of people came here to feed us. We are planning to carry grocery products like rice, dal, fruits and even raw items like atta and pulses with us because we have no idea when we will be getting food again.Even in our village, we don’t know how the situation is,” Devas Bhoi, a construction site worker from Besoli village in Bastar district told TOI.
“We had applied for passes for travelling to Chhattisgarh almost 11 days ago. We recently heard that a train left for Bilaspur from Hyderabad but are not sure when the next train will depart,” he added.
With fewer trains running to Chhattisgarh as compared to Bihar and Jharkhand, and none to Maharashtra, most workers who had registered to get travel passes said they haven’t received a timely response from state and railway helplines, and they will be walk to Secunderabad and Lingampally railway station in hope of catching a train.