Hyderabad: Employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) held a two-hour-long protest across the state on Saturday morning against Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan’s delay in signing the TSRTC merger bill which would make 43474 employees of the public transport body into state government employees.
As part of the protests, the employees boycotted work from 6 to 8 am in the morning leading to delays in services in some places in Hyderabad.
Need more time to sign TSRTC merger bill: Telangana Guv
The Telangana Mazdoor Union (TMU), which led these protests, also has decided to hold protests in front of the Raj Bhavan at 11 am and has given a call to all workers to reach the necklace road. Due to these protests, public transport commuters are hit with scores of them seen waiting at several bus stops across the city.
Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday said that she will sign the TSRTC merger bill (Absorption of employees into government service) after examining all the legal issues around it and the process will take ‘more time’.
This follows the Telangana cabinet’s decision on July 31, Monday to recognise over 43,000 employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) as employees of the state government.
The Cabinet, at its meeting chaired by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, constituted a sub-committee comprising officials to frame the guidelines.
After the bill is passed, TSRTC workers will be classified as government employees, making them eligible for all government benefits. government employees thus eligible for all government benefits.
The BRS government’s decision gains significance as it comes very close to the upcoming assembly elections end of this year.
