Non-Resident Indians hailing from Karimnagar district in the State and living in the United States of America have offered to sponsor the travel back home, for Gulf migrants who are stranded in the United Arab Emirates by providing them air tickets from Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah to Hyderabad.
In a press release, M. Bheem Reddy, vice-president, Migrants Rights Council, said Alladi Sanjeeva Rao and Challagonda Venu, both from Karimnagar district and who now live in Boston, were moved by the plight of migrants and had offered to help.
The ‘undocumented, overstayed’ migrant workers in the UAE could now leave back home without paying the penalties and serving jail term, under the amnesty’ scheme from December 4 to February 3, 2013, Mr. Reddy said.
Mr. Rao and Mr. Venu offered to sponsor air tickets for four migrant labourers each.
The services of Janagama Srinivas, a social workers in Sharjah were being used for the purpose, the release said, adding that those interested could contact him over his mobile +971505490298.
source: http://www.TheHindu.com / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / by Special Correspondent / Hyderabad, December 10th, 2012