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Opposing the government’s determination to handover the depots of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport (APSRTC) to backstage companies operating electrical buses, employees staged a dharna successful beforehand of the Collectorate successful Nellore city. They besides submitted a memorandum to the Joint Collector.
Later, the employees gave their petitions to the District Public Transport Officer (DPTO) and the APSRTC officials here. On the telephone of All India Road Transport Federation, the national leaders and employees participated successful a immense rally and appealed to the authorities to resoluteness their problems and fortify the APSRTC.
The national leaders demanded that the authorities retreat the determination to manus implicit the APSRTC sites crossed the State to backstage companies. Terming it arsenic a menace to the aboriginal of the nationalist transport corporation, they requested the officials to proceed the Nellore-2 depot without immoderate privatisation.
The main APSRTC depot astatine Somasekara Puram successful Nellore is reportedly divided into 2 depots. While Nellore-1 is continued for diesel buses, Nellore-1 is being dedicated to a backstage institution for operating electrical buses. The employees successful the territory expressed beardown absorption to the cognition of electrical buses by the backstage firms.
