Buses to go off the road in Telang ana Monday

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HYDERABAD: In spite of appeals and warnings by the APSRTC management, its Telangana employees have decided to go on an indefinite..

HYDERABAD: In spite of appeals and warnings by the APSRTC management, its Telangana employees have decided to go on an indefinite strike from September 19 in support of the Sakalajanula Samme by applying brakes on all the bus services in the region. Staying away from work by majority of the staff would have a severe impact on the commuters who are dependent on bus services.
As part of the strike, the JAC leaders have decided to lock all the bus depots in the region to obstruct movement of vehicles. Of the total 22,000 RTC buses in the state, about 11,500 are being run in Telangana region (about 3,700 buses in Hyderabad city). The proposed strike is also going to affect the revenues of the corporation to a tune of about `7.5 crore per day.In addition, the Telangana auto workers association JAC has also decided to observe 48hour bandh from midnight of September 18 in support of the ongoing Sakalajanula samme. Seven seater autos and trollies have also decided to stay off the roads.

Meanwhile, the Kiran Kumar Reddy government has declared transport services of goods carriages and public service vehicles as an 'essential service' with immediate effect under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Essential Service Maintenance Act (ESMA), 1971. It has issued orders prohibiting strikes in the transport services for a period of six months from Saturday.

Some of the workers though willing to join the strike were worried about a circular issued by the RTC management that 'no work no pay' rule would be applicable to all the absentees.

Going into the details, the APSRTC has a total workforce of about 1.21 lakh who include 58,000 Telangana employees. Another 15,000 employees were working on contract basis.

Meanwhile, the CM has also reviewed the situation with the senior officials at his camp office on Saturday.