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Leaders of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) Employees’ Unions JAC connected Wednesday (June 17, 2026) opposed the Andhra Pradesh government’s program to tally electrical buses done backstage operators and to lease RTC lands to backstage entities.
A gathering of the APSRTC Employees’ JAC was held successful Vijayawada nether the enactment of Vijayawada portion JAC leaders Y.S. Rao and Adapa Rama Rao, and chaired by Employees’ Union zonal president G. Chiranjeevi.
The unions demanded that the APSRTC bargain and run the electrical buses itself, enlistee 10,000 employees, adhd 4,000 buses, wide pending worker dues, denote Interim Relief (IR), represent the 12th Pay Revision Commission (PRC), and settee retirees’ arrears.
The leaders said the APSRTC absorption should usage the incentives and subsidies provided by the Central authorities for electrical buses and bargain the buses straight done the corporation, truthful that they were operated by RTC employees. They accused the authorities and the absorption of trying to manus implicit not lone electrical autobus operations but besides invaluable depot lands to backstage operators done lease arrangements, without considering the views of the worker unions.
The JAC leaders announced red-ribbon protests connected June 23 and 24, and a reappraisal gathering connected June 28. They warned of Statewide protests if the authorities did not code the demands.
The gathering was attended by JAC conveners Y. Srinivasa Rao (NMUA) and G.V. Narasayya (EU); co-conveners P.V. Ramana Reddy (NMUA), M.D. Prasad (EU), C.H. Sundarayya (SWF), S.K. Jilani (SWF), S.V. Seshagiri Rao (KP), Y. Srinivasa Rao (KP) and K.S.P. Rao (United Workers), among others.
