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Leaders of A.P. Public Transport Department (APPTD) Employees Union demanded that the authorities revoke its determination to privatise RTC depots to electrical autobus operators.
In abstracted representations made to the elder officials of the corporation, the leaders urged the authorities to reconsider their determination to vacate Guntur-2 depot and Vidyadharapuram depot for electrical autobus operators and instead, allot them alternate vacant authorities land.
The union’s State president P. Damodara Rao and wide caput G.V. Narasayya said that arsenic portion of the archetypal signifier of protestation against the decision, the employees would signifier demonstrations connected February 20 astatine each the 11 depots wherever electrical buses were being introduced. They demanded that a gathering beryllium convened with the employees’ unions to sermon the issues related to electrical buses and to wide the apprehensions among employees.
They said that they were not against the instauration of electrical buses successful the RTC, but requested the authorities to guarantee that they were managed by the APSRTC, with the enactment of the State and Central governments.
The national leaders argued that leasing retired RTC onshore successful 11 depots to backstage electrical autobus operators for 12 years would beryllium detrimental to the aboriginal of the corporation, and expressed interest that the projected Gross Cost Contract (GCC) exemplary would origin fiscal losses to the corp and adversely impact employees’ interests.
They warned that each employees unions successful the APSRTC would unite and signifier a sustained agitation successful phases to safeguard the interests of the Corporation and its employees, if authorities failed to perceive their plea.
