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Leaders of Andhra Pradesh Public Transport Department (APPTD-APSRTC) Employees Union person urged the authorities to reconstruct the aesculapian benefits provided to retired RTC employees earlier the 2020 merger.
In a practice submitted to the APSRTC Vice-Chairman and Managing Director Ch. Dwaraka Tirumala Rao connected Tuesday (December 02), Employees Union State president P. Damodara Rao and wide caput G.V. Narasaiah said earlier merging the APSRTC with the Transport section successful 2020, retired RTC employees utilized to wage a definite magnitude nether the Retired Employees Medical Scheme (REMS). Under this scheme, RTC hospitals and dispensaries provided attraction on with medicines to the beneficiaries. They said keeping the payment of retired RTC unit successful view, akin aesculapian facilities should beryllium continued adjacent aft the merger.
They recalled that earlier the merger, beingness aesculapian benefits worthy ₹4 lakh were provided to some employees and their spouses successful referral hospitals, successful summation to escaped attraction and medicines successful RTC hospitals. However, aft the merger, the erstwhile authorities discontinued this REMS scheme, causing hardship to retired employees, they pointed out.
They said pursuing repeated appeals by them and with the efforts of Mr. Tirumala Rao, the contiguous authorities issued orders successful January this year, stating that the employees who retired aft the merger and who wage the prescribed magnitude would beryllium covered nether EHS for aesculapian benefits for some hubby and wife, but lone OP (outpatient) attraction would beryllium disposable astatine RTC hospitals. The national leaders argued that OP services unsocial bash not payment retired employees and reiterated their plea that medicines should besides beryllium distributed on with treatment, arsenic provided earlier the merger, and that the authorities should contented indispensable orders to enactment retired RTC employees.
