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Leaders of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) Employees Union (EU) person urged the authorities to code cardinal issues affecting employees and the effectual implementation of the Stree Shakti scheme.
In abstracted representations submitted to RTC Chairman K. Narayana Rao and Vice-Chairman and Managing Director Ch. Dwaraka Tirumala Rao connected Tuesday, the union’s State president P. Damodar Rao and wide caput G.V. Narasayya said that the existing fleet and manpower were inadequate to prolong the strategy successful the agelong run.
They pointed retired that drivers and conductors were nether terrible strain arsenic galore buses were overcrowded, carrying betwixt 100 and 150 women passengers, good beyond their capacity. “In specified conditions, conductors are being penalised oregon adjacent suspended by depot managers for insignificant lapses recovered during inspections,” they said, urging that this punitive attack beryllium stopped.
The leaders emphasised the request to induct astatine slightest 3,000 further buses and 10,000 caller unit members to guarantee creaseless operations. They requested that these issues beryllium discussed astatine the RTC Board gathering scheduled for Wednesday and that urgent corrective measures beryllium taken.
Referring to the long-pending fiscal and administrative grievances of RTC employees, they urged the Chairman to instrumentality up these matters with the State government. Their demands see the colony of pending fiscal and non-financial issues, merchandise of dues related to the abolished Staff Retirement Benefit Scheme (SRBS) and Staff Benevolent Thrift (SBT) fund, outgo of 46 days of pending overtime wages and nighttime halt allowances, merchandise of Employees Provident Fund (EPF) dues for employees shifted to the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), completion of pending compassionate appointments, proviso of employment to a household subordinate of employees declared medically unfit, restoration of referral-based aesculapian attraction arsenic galore were not receiving capable attraction nether the Employees Health Scheme (EHS), and allocation of bureau abstraction on with restoration of each benefits and concessions to recognised unions wrong the Corporation.
The national leaders person besides appealed to the authorities to reimburse the astir ₹250 crore monthly expenditure incurred by the Corporation towards escaped autobus question for women beneficiaries nether the Stree Shakti strategy without delay.
They said the scheme, launched connected August 15 arsenic portion of the TDP-led conjugation government’s Super Six initiatives, had received wide appreciation. To guarantee its success, RTC officials and unit had been moving tirelessly. However, the nonaccomplishment to merchandise funds connected clip was making it progressively hard for the Corporation to proceed operations smoothly, they cautioned.
They reiterated their plea to wide the pending Stree Shakti reimbursement dues and to guarantee timely monthly payments to prolong the strategy and relieve fiscal unit connected the Corporation.
