Telangana brings back 250 stranded people from USA

Smiles were back on the faces of more than 250 people from Telangana, who were stranded in the US, as they returned to their hometown on Saturday morning in a special chartered flight that landed at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Shamshabad here.

Thanks to the initiative taken up by US-India Solidarity Mission (USISM) led by Ravi Puli, the passengers safely landed at RGIA from Doha. The flyers, mostly students, businessmen and those who went to the US to meet their children and relatives, first came to Doha where they boarded Qatar airways flight and reached RGIA, said Ravi from Washington DC over phone.

All the passengers



were now under the mandatory quarantine at a star hotel here.

Two businessmen from Telangana, who were stranded in Mexico, were among the passengers who returned to their hometown. On coming to know the problems being faced by Indians stranded in the US, Ravi started a website usism.org requesting such persons to register to return here by charter flight.

“The response was overwhelming. As many as 2,000 people enrolled with us. But we succeeded in bringing over 250 people to Telangana in the first phase,” Ravi explained, adding the organization managed to overcome difficulties to successfully repatriate people from three places in the US.