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The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) Employees’ Unions’ JAC has announced a State-wide disturbance if the authorities does not instantly retreat its determination to let backstage operators to tally electrical buses.
The Joint Action Committee (JAC) was formed during a gathering of antithetic employees’ unions successful Vijayawada connected Monday. National Mazdoor Unity Association (NMUA) State president Y. Srinivasa Rao and his RTC Employees’ Union counterpart Palisetti Damodara Rao volition beryllium the convenors of the JAC.
Addressing the media aft discussing the interaction of the electrical autobus argumentation connected the APSRTC employees, the convenors said that APSRTC should acquisition electrical buses and employment its ain drivers alternatively of roping successful backstage operators.
“Instead of considering specified suggestions, the State authorities and the APSRTC are bent connected handing implicit not lone electrical buses, but besides the autobus depots to backstage operators connected lease,” they said.
The convenors feared that this argumentation would enactment the aboriginal of APSRTC arsenic a Public Sector Unit astatine hazard and pb to privatisation.
“At a clip erstwhile the authorities and the corp should instrumentality steps to summation the fig of buses arsenic per the expanding passengers and enlistee much drivers, specified a argumentation has instilled fears among the thousands of employees,” the JAC said.
Further, the APSRTC absorption should procure 4,000 buses to trim the load connected the employees caused by the implementation of the Stree Shakti scheme. The absorption should besides instrumentality up recruitment drives to capable the 10,000 vacancies, they demanded.
Later, the JAC members said a practice would beryllium submitted to the APSRTC Vice-Chairman and Managing Director connected June 11. Between June 16 and 20, protests person been planned successful prime cities, and connected June 23 and 24, the employees crossed the State would spell connected a strike, they said.
