RTC buses to go off roads today

APSRTC _0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_0_1.jpg

Hyderabad: Over 11,700 buses will go off the roads from Monday midnight with the APSRTC’s two main unions going on an indefinite strike. With lakhs of commuters travelling within Rayalaseema, Andhra and Telangana regions, particularly due to the marriage season, normal life is expected to come to a standstill with buses going off the roads. According to estimates, around 80 per cent of the inter-district travellers use bus services.
Meanwhile, the APSRTC management is gearing up to deal with the strike called by the two major unions — APSRTC Employees’ Union and the Telangana Mazdoor Union. A total of 133 depots across Rayalaseema and Andhra will be hit by the strike.
The authorities are hoping to run normal services in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts, despite the strike notice given by the Telangana Mazdoor Union. Of the 22,650 schedules over half will be crippled completely, officials said.
The strike called by the APSRTC Employees’ Union in association with APNGO is expected to cripple services almost completely. Meanwhile, the Telangana Mazdoor Union too has said that they will go ahead with their strike notice, which will cripple bus transport in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy zones.
Apart from putting commuters to trouble, the strike will hit the APSRTC badly as the corporation is already facing a loss of Rs 3,000 crore and a debt of Rs 4,000 crore. The APSRTC and has been taking loans to pay salaries. The RTC is likely to lose the revenue from the extra traffic during the Sravanam month.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/250001" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: &lt;a&gt; &lt;em&gt; &lt;strong&gt; &lt;cite&gt; &lt;code&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;ol&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;dl&gt; &lt;dt&gt; &lt;dd&gt;</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-f0d73ff3bce610259340cc9fbde48e7e" value="form-f0d73ff3bce610259340cc9fbde48e7e" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="84472890" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.