Tirupati: Police extend support to migrants

Tirupati: Urban Police have come to the rescue of a group of migrants going to their native place, on Monday. The Renigunta police who found the migrants on the highway took them to the temporary shelter near Ramana Vilas junction on the highway. They were provided food and other facilities.

Tirupati Urban SP A Ramesh Reddy on Monday visited the rest centre and interacted with 37 migrants including women and children who were provided with food, umbrella and also foot wear. SP in his interaction asked the migrants to strictly follow safety norms while going back to their native states and wanted them to stay in the rest house till the police and revenue authorities make arrangements for their travel either by bus or train.

Affirming that the AP government is keen on providing facilities to migrants return safely to their places, he sought the migrants not to be panic. Meanwhile, 305 migrants including from MP 114, Jharkhand 40, Odissa 45 and Bihar 100 who are coming from Malur in Karnataka to go their states were provided food and shelter near Nangili check post on AP-Karnataka border.

Joint Collector Markandeyulu said that food and buses were arranged to the migrants from Madhya Pradesh and Odisha to go to Vijayawada. In Srikalahasthi MLA Biyapu Madhusudhan Reddy took initiative for providing shelter to 88 migrant labourers from Jharkhand,UP and Srikakulam in AP.