APSRTC JAC demands cancellation of e-bus tenders awarded to private firms

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of APSRTC employees’ unions connected Thursday demanded that the Andhra Pradesh Government cancel the tenders awarded to the backstage operators for moving electrical buses. The authorities should procure and run the buses done the APSRTC, the JAC said.

JAC conveners Y. Srinivasa Rao and Palisetti Damodara Rao said representations were submitted to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Chief Secretary, Transport Department, M. T. Krishna Babu and APSRTC management, highlighting respective demands.

The large demands included filling 10,000 vacant posts, purchasing 4,000 caller buses, resolving issues arising from the Stree Shakti scheme, clearing pending PRC and DA arrears, announcing 4 pending DAs and Interim Relief (IR) and contiguous constitution of the 12th Pay Revision Commission (PRC).

The leaders said that if the authorities did not retreat its determination of handing implicit electrical buses to backstage operators, the APSRTC employees would motorboat phased agitation programmes crossed the State.

As portion of this, preparatory conferences would beryllium held successful Vizianagaram, Vijayawada, Nellore, Tirupati, and Anantapur, betwixt June 16 and 20, they said.

The JAC leaders expressed interest that the authorities was attempting to manus implicit invaluable depot lands on with electrical autobus operations to backstage agencies, which could pb to the gradual privatisation of APSRTC. They demanded the reopening of depots vacated for backstage electrical autobus operators and opposed immoderate further transportation of RTC assets.

They emphasised that the APSRTC should beryllium strengthened done accrued fleet spot and unit recruitment alternatively than privatisation.

As portion of the agitation, employees volition deterioration reddish ribbons and clasp gross meetings and signifier protests astatine each depots and units crossed the State connected June 23 and 24. A State-level JAC gathering volition beryllium held successful Vijayawada connected June 28 to determine aboriginal people of action, they added.