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Women employees of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC), nether the banner of the RTC Women Workers’ Convening Committee, staged a protestation demanding contiguous solution of their pending grievances, astatine Dharna Chowk successful Vijayawada connected Tuesday.
State convenor of the committee, Ch. Rajeshwari, said astir 7,000 women were moving successful APSRTC arsenic regular, contract, and outsourced staff, but their repeated representations to the absorption had gone unanswered. She said enactment unit and favoritism had increased, peculiarly aft the implementation of the ‘Stree Shakti’ escaped question scheme, starring to carnal and intelligence stress. She demanded a monthly peculiar grievance time to code women employees’ concerns.
Shramika Mahila Convening Committee person and CITU State caput Dhanalakshmi said women workers were facing superior wellness issues owed to excessive workload. Though the Stree Shakti strategy was meant to fortify RTC, deficiency of further buses and unit had accrued the load connected women conductors and drivers, causing exhaustion, backmost symptom and different wellness problems.
Co-convenor A. Seethalaxmi said portion occupancy ratio (OR) had gone up nether the scheme, moving schedules had not been revised, resulting successful delays and extended work hours. She alleged that women unit were often forced to enactment overtime and they often returned location precocious astatine night, particularly erstwhile buses interruption down oregon were stuck successful traffic.
The protesting women demanded implementation of kid attraction permission and monthly peculiar leave, an extremity to ‘forced overtime’, improved restroom facilities, revised moving schedules, enactment of intersexual harassment prevention committees, strict enactment against harassment of women conductors, work concessions for women supra 50 years, steps to guarantee that their duties extremity earlier 9 p.m. and installation of conductor doors successful each buses.
State caput of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), V. Srinivasa Rao, criticised the alleged privatisation of depots nether the pretext of introducing electrical buses and demanded that the authorities code employees’ grievances without delay.
A memorandum was submitted to the APSRTC Vice-Chairman and Managing Director N. Balasubramanyam, urging the absorption to resoluteness the issues astatine the earliest.
