RTC unions oppose move to hand over electric buses to private operators

Leaders of the Andhra Pradesh Public Transport Department (APPTD) National Mazdoor Unity Association (NMUA) and the APSRTC Employees’ Union person demanded that the State authorities instantly retreat its argumentation of allowing backstage operators to tally electrical buses successful the corporation.

In a connection connected Wednesday, NMUA State president Y. Srinivasa Rao, APSRTC Employees’ Union State president P. Damodara Rao said that though worker unions had repeatedly urged the authorities and the APSRTC authorities to avail themselves of the subsidies being offered by the Central authorities for the acquisition of electrical buses and run them straight done the RTC staff, their demands had been ignored.

They alleged that not lone the electrical buses, but besides premier lands belonging to the RTC depots were being handed implicit to backstage operators connected lease.

Saying that specified moves could pave the mode for privatisation, the unions had decided to enactment towards a agreed movement. Several long-pending issues successful the corporation, including the difficulties faced by employees owed to the ‘Stree Shakti’ escaped question strategy for women, request to beryllium addressed.

A gathering of each worker unions and associations that existed successful APSRTC earlier its merger with the authorities would beryllium held successful Vijayawada connected June 8. The leaders said a Joint Action Committee (JAC) comprising each RTC unions would beryllium formed to motorboat a agreed agitation connected issues affecting the corp and its employees.

Pointing retired that APSRTC had been serving lakhs of radical for decades arsenic a nationalist assemblage undertaking, they expressed interest that authorities decisions starring towards privatisation were creating anxiousness among employees.