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The AP Public Transport Department (APPTD-APSRTC) Employees’ Union has opposed the State government’s attempts to privatise the nationalist transport corp nether the guise of introducing electrical buses.
The national leaders person warned that they volition defy specified a determination and announced a bid of protests crossed the State.
In a connection connected Sunday, national State president P. Damodara Rao and State wide caput G.V. Narasayya alleged that the authorities was trying to manus implicit invaluable RTC assets and operations to backstage companies successful the sanction of electrical autobus services.
They said the remarks precocious made by APSRTC Chairman Konakalla Narayana Rao had exposed the government’s “real intentions.”
The national leaders questioned the government’s involvement successful entrusting the cognition of electrical buses and RTC depots, which impact assets and lands worthy thousands of crores, to large concern groups. They alleged that immoderate depots had already been leased retired and efforts were underway to manus implicit much depots.
Highlighting RTC’s value arsenic a nationalist transport institution, they said the corp provides services to astir 60 lakh passengers each day. The leaders criticised the authorities for citing mediocre fiscal conditions portion allegedly spending heavy connected superior improvement projects without adequately supporting RTC.
Burden of schemes
The national besides pointed to the implementation of the cchemes, nether which lakhs of women and differently-abled persons question utilizing subsidised services.
The leaders said portion the authorities was required to reimburse astir ₹300 crore each period to the RTC nether these schemes, it was presently releasing lone astir ₹160 crore. They argued that afloat reimbursement would alteration RTC to independently acquisition electrical and CNG buses without relying connected backstage operators.
The national leaders expressed interest implicit the deficiency of recruitment successful RTC during the past 14 years, and noted that astir 10,000 vacancies were not included successful the recently-announced occupation calendar.
As portion of their agitation programme, RTC employees precocious organised protests astatine depots crossed the State. The national leaders said representations would beryllium submitted to District Collectors demanding that electrical buses beryllium operated straight by RTC. They besides announced a round-table with assorted worker and commercialized unions successful Vijayawada connected May 26 to determine the aboriginal people of action.
