Telangana NRI workers, who had been stranded for over a year and a half in Saudi Arabia, finally left for home on Monday... hundreds of Indian workers... were employed with construction giant J&P... the firm defaulted wages and removed some from their jobs... 39 left for Hyderabad on Monday... The [Indian] embassy, in collaboration with the local Labour Ministry, is providing food and healthcare to the stranded for some time now... [and] has been pursuing the repatriation of workers with Saudi authorities for over a year. Then Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh also visited Riyadh to address their case... The Telangana government was notified of the arrival of the workers at Hyderabad airport, and the NRI wing is set to provide them cash assistance.