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Send back workers employed in rice mills: Telangana requests Bihar

Rao said if necessary he would talk to the Centre to arrange few special trains to bring back the Bihari migrant workers.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) during his swearing-in ceremony as the Chief Minister of Telangana, in Hyderabad, Thursday | Photo: PTI

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K Chandrashekar Rao, Chief Minister of Telangana| Photo: PTI

3 min read Last Updated : Mar 30 2020 | 10:21 AM IST

At a time when migrant workers from several states were returning home due to nation-wide Coronavirus lockdown, Telangana has urged Bihar to send back the latter's workers employed in rice mills in Telangana.

Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao told reporters on Sunday night that Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar will speak to his Bihar counterpart to request him to send back the workers.

Rao said if necessary he would talk to the Centre to arrange few special trains to bring back the Bihari migrant workers.

With Telangana gearing up to procure record 1.05 crore tonnes of paddy from farmers at designated procurement centres in

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