Hyderabad, Nov.21 (Maxim News): Some 280 RTC workers on Thursday met Rajanna-Sircilla District RTC Depot manager Srinivasa Rao and requested him to allow them to resume duties immediately. However, the RTC crew went back when the depot manager informed them that he did not receive any order from the higher-ups and he would do so after receipt of a communication to that effect.
Similarly, the RTC employees working in Hanamkonda bus depot announced they were ready to resume their duties at once. They urged the RTC management to allow them to rejoin their duties without any pre-conditions as the strike affected employees were losing their previous lives due to heart pain and ill-health caused by worse financial conditions.
In the State capital, some 300 employees of Uppal depot and 60 of Maheshwaram depot approached the authorities to allow them to join duties. They also bemoaned that the State government remained rigid and not responding to their hardship even as they were suffering since the last 48 days.
Even as the RTC union’s JAC announced its willingness to withdraw the strike, on the condition that the government would not impose any conditions, the employees turned up at the Uppal depot seeking to join duty. They also raised slogans asking the management to allow them to join the duty. Uppal depot manager B. Venka Reddy said the matter was taken to the notice of higher officials and that a response was awaited from them.
On Wednesday, after daylong meetings, the JAC leaders had expressed willingness to withdraw the strike, but said the RTC management or the government should not impose any conditions on the employees when they returned to work. The strike, they said, would continue till the government responded to this condition. (Maxim News)
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