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The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) Staff and Workers Federation has urged the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) to name its ain drivers for electrical buses and shun the existent signifier of hiring institution drivers.
H.V. Anantha Subba Rao, president of the federation, successful a missive to Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy, has said that this was important for the information of the nationalist and to debar accidents.
Accidents connected the rise
Mr. Rao said that successful caller times, accidents involving BMTC buses person been expanding successful the city, resulting successful nonaccomplishment of life. The media is portraying it arsenic the responsibility of BMTC drivers, whereas much accidents cases were reported linked to electrical buses, which are not driven by drivers hired by the BMTC.
“There are definite criteria and a disciplinary model for the drivers recruited by BMTC. If they thrust carelessly, disciplinary enactment tin beryllium taken against them. But determination are nary qualification tests for electrical autobus drivers of backstage companies and they are not taxable to disciplinary action,” helium stated.
Mr. Rao further said that neither drivers nor driver-cum-conductors recruited by the BMTC should beryllium sent connected routes without a circumstantial play of training. “In lawsuit of an accident, a associated committee of the absorption and federation should beryllium formed to find the existent origin of the same,” helium demanded.
Cases of violence
“Apart from the accidents, we are besides acrophobic astir the expanding incidents of unit against passengers successful backstage vehicles hired by BMTC. The organisation does not person the authorization to instrumentality immoderate disciplinary enactment against specified drivers,” Mr. Rao said.
