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Autorickshaw unions connected Saturday staged a protestation adjacent Basheerbagh successful an effort to gully attraction to their long-standing demands, including an summation successful metre fare.
The protestation was a portion of the Chalo Assembly call, which was foiled by police.
The Telangana State Auto Drivers’ Associations Joint Action Committee bureau bearers reiterated that the Congress authorities had not made bully connected their pre-poll promises. They besides said that for respective years the minimum fare had remained the same.
According to JAC bureau bearers B. Venkatesham and A. Sathi Reddy, contempt making respective representations, the existent ruling dispensation had not looked into the hardship faced by car drivers.
“Price of petrol and CNG person increased. LPG prices person increased. In fact, the State authorities has accrued the terms of autobus tickets. So we bash not recognize wherefore minimum car fare has not been increased. It has remained the aforesaid — ₹20. We person been demanding that minimum fare beryllium accrued to ₹50,” Mr. Sathireddy said, adding that the unions person continuously sought an summation successful per kilometre fare from ₹11 to ₹20.
The unions besides demanded that amended enforcement arsenic regards autorickshaws registered successful different districts plying metropolis roads. Union leaders opined that this has fixed emergence to unfair contention with those from wrong the metropolis struggling with getting customers. They besides said having autorickshaws registered, for instance, successful Mahboobnagar, ferrying passengers successful Hyderabad is against rules.
While a payment committee for gig workers is apt to beryllium a world soon, they excessively sought a payment committee for car rickshaw workers, adding that their lives are tough, arsenic they are forced to vie with nationalist transport, arsenic good arsenic two-wheeler taxis.
In the meanwhile, the urged the authorities to widen an yearly fiscal assistance of ₹12,000 for each autorickshaw driver.
Union leaders were picked up, and detained astatine the Musheerabad Police Station aft which they were released.
