In light of the recent violence and unrest between tribes in Manipur, 72 students and civilians hailing from Telangana arrived safely in Hyderabad at 12:45 p.m. on Monday. Another 34 individuals will be reaching via Kolkata to Hyderabad by Monday evening, an official release said.
The students were flown in from Imphal Airport, Manipur, to Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, following a coordinated airlift operation executed by the State governments of Manipur and Telangana.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has specially taken care of Telangana students and civilians stranded in Manipur, where extreme law and order situation had developed over conflict between two communities. Chief Secretary Shanti Kumari, DGP Anjani Kumar formed a special working group with round-the-clock control room in the DGP office, following which students studying in NIT, IIIT, JIMS, Manipur Agriculture University, along with distressed civilians, including a five-day-old baby with parents hailing from Bhainsa town of Nirmal district, were safely brought back, said a release.
