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Leaders of Andhra Pradesh Public Transport Department (APPTD-APSRTC) Employees Union urged the State authorities to revive the Retired Employees Medical Scheme (REMS).
In a practice submitted to the A.P. State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) Vice-Chairman and Managing Director Ch. Dwaraka Tirumala Rao connected Tuesday, the employees national State president P. Damodara Rao and wide caput G.V. Narasayya said that earlier the merger of the corp employees successful the government, retired RTC employees who wanted to opt for REMS enrolled successful the strategy by contributing a definite amount.
Through this scheme, the retired employees and their spouses received each the aesculapian facilities and medicines astatine the RTC-empanelled hospitals and additionally, the RTC absorption provided sum of up to ₹4 lakh for beingness aesculapian facilities done referral hospitals. However, the REMS strategy was scrapped successful 2020 aft the merger, causing distress to astir 6,000 employees, who person been facing difficulties owed to deficiency of aesculapian support, they said.
The employees national leaders said that though the authorities had issued a GO successful January this year, the strategy had not been implemented and retired employees proceed to look the difficulties. They urged the authorities to instrumentality the scheme, making it voluntary for the employees to wage contributions to person aesculapian facilities.
