TSRTC JAC opposes permit to private players

Telangana State Road Transport Corporation employees Joint Action Committee (JAC) leaders came out against the move to issue permits to private players to operate their buses.

JAC convener Ashwathama Reddy, stating that the RTC had to be seen as a public transport mode and keeping in mind the concerns of passengers who depend on buses, said it was the responsibility of the State government to safeguard public transportation.

“We are fighting only to safeguard RTC and to provide better transport services to public,” Reddy said here, even as the strike entered the 25th day.

JAC co-convener M Thomas Reddy said permits for private operators would only impact public transportation. Alleging that long after the bifurcation of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh,



allotment of properties and routes was yet to be done, Reddy said the reforms in APSRTC should be implemented in TSRTC as well.

Meanwhile, the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) JAC declared its support to the strike, stating that the demands made by the TSRTC JAC were ‘justified’.

Earlier, in the day, Ashwathama Reddy told the media that the figures submitted by the government on TSRTC in the High Court were not correct.

There were arrears to the tune of Rs.1,099 crore from 2009 to 2014 which had to be released to the corporation in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, followed by bus pass subsidy of Rs,1,375 crore from 2014 to 2019 and 1,496 crore as per the Municipal Act, he alleged.