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Scores of retired workers of Telangana’s State Road Transport Corporation descended astatine the Bus Bhavan adjacent RTC Crossroad connected Thursday seeking a disbursal of dues and besides to underscore immoderate they were receiving from the authorities was grossly inadequate.
Taking to the streets, and raising their dependable for demands, these retired Road Transport Corporation workers pointed retired that post-retirement benefits specified arsenic revision of wage arrears from 2017 onwards, PF excessively were due.
Retired RTC employees staging a protestation demanding clearing of the benefits, successful Hyderabad connected Thursday (June 18, 2026). | Photo Credit: RAMAKRISHNA G
Retired workers raised slogans specified arsenic memu emi bikshaku raledu (we are not present for alms), and kotladtham (we volition combat [for rights]). The demonstrators carried placards urging the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation absorption to heed their demands and merchandise funds.
The protesters underscored the precocious outgo of living, escalating costs of groceries, and familial duties specified arsenic arranging for weddings of their children, and healthcare expenses, and adjacent ceremonial expenses. They said that they had submitted representations to elder TGSRTC officials, and were awaiting a affirmative response.
Those who appeared older than others, and frail, either stood connected the margins of the protest, nodding successful statement with the slogans, and speeches. Demonstrators underscored that they had enactment successful decades of work for the transport juggernaut and that this publication should not beryllium ignored.
