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The talks held by Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of the A.P. State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) Ch. Dwaraka Tirumala Rao with the representatives of the Hired Bus Owners’ Association were palmy with the autobus owners deciding to retreat their projected protestation from January 12.
Mr. Tirumala Rao said nary inconvenience should beryllium caused to passengers during the Sankranti festival season.
After giving a diligent proceeding to the autobus owners, who poured retired their woes to him connected relationship of the implementation of Stree Shakti scheme, Mr. Tirumala Rao assured them that the issues would beryllium resolved by January 20.
APSRTC Executive Directors K.S. Brahmananda Reddy (Administration), A. Appala Raju (Operations), Ravi Varma (Engineering) and others participated successful the meeting. They aboriginal informed the media that prosecute buses would run arsenic accustomed during Sankranti.
The relation members precocious met Transport Minister M. Ramprasad and informed him that owed to important summation successful rider traffic, pursuing implementation of the Stree Shakti strategy from August 15, 2025, they had been facing respective problems.
They said owed to shortage of buses to conscionable the accrued rider unreserved successful Express, Metro Express, City Ordinary, Ultra Palle Velugu and Palle Velugu hired buses, the buses were overloaded astatine immoderate places, resulting successful an accrued hazard of accidents, disputes among passengers wrong the buses, and added unit connected the staff.
They said overloading of buses besides led to further fiscal load of attraction and, successful lawsuit of accidents, they faced issues related to security coverage. The Minister had past assured them that helium would convey their problems to the officials acrophobic and that they would beryllium addressed astatine the earliest.
