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The Andhra Pradesh Public Transport Department (APPTD-APSRTC) Employees’ Union has acceptable Deepavali-2025 arsenic the deadline for the authorities to merchandise a Government Order (GO) connected pending promotions.
In a statement, the employees’ national State president P. Damodar Rao and wide caput G.V. Narasayya said if the authorities failed to merchandise the GO connected pending promotions by Deepavali, they would beryllium forced to motorboat State-wide protests.
They said pursuing persistent demands by the employees, the Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of the APSRTC sent proposals to the authorities seeking indispensable approvals. Subsequently, the Transport Minister and elder officials of the section forwarded it to the Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who besides gave his motion for promotions to employees connected August 28, 2025.
However, the GO was inactive pending with the General Administration Department (GAD) and astir 6,000 RTC employees person been waiting endlessly for promotions, they said.
They besides said the RTC staff, particularly the drivers and conductors operating ‘Stree Shakti’ buses were nether tremendous unit due to the fact that of the overcrowding of buses. The increasing incidents of attacks connected them by unruly persons successful vehicles was a origin of large concern, they said, and urged the authorities acrophobic to instrumentality contiguous and effectual steps to cheque specified incidents. They said contempt definite constraints, the unit and workers were moving hard to guarantee occurrence of the escaped question strategy but it was unfortunate that they were being subjected to maltreatment and adjacent carnal attacks.
They besides reiterated their request for induction of caller buses successful the APSRTC fleet for palmy implementation of the Stree Shakti scheme. They said if the authorities failed to enactment swiftly, the RTC workers’ woes would worsen successful the summertime months.
