Karnataka: Transport corporation employees strike enters third day
Bengaluru: The workers of the state-owned Transport firms continued their strike for the third consecutive day on Saturday (December 12), leaving commuters stranded throughout the state.
Employees of the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, North West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation and North Eastern Karnataka Road Transport Corporation have been on strike since Thursday (December 10) demanding salaries on par with state authorities employees amongst others.
Very few buses of the BMTC and the state transport firms operated because the transport workers didn’t be a part of responsibility and staged protests throughout the state on the vital bus terminus within the district and Taluk headquarters.
A KSRTC officer mentioned 87 buses operated in Mangaluru, three in Shivamogga, two in Davangere and one in Chitradurga until Eight am. In different divisions, zero buses operated together with Bengaluru.
The BMTC public relation officer mentioned 94 metropolis buses operated towards the power of over 6,500 buses.
Though the protests had been peaceable, sporadic incidents of stone-pelting on buses ferrying passengers had been reported. There had been additionally incidents the place bus drivers and conductors had been abused for becoming a member of responsibility and going towards the pursuits of the agitating employees.
In Bengaluru, the police took a number of agitators of their custody at Majestic, which is the Central Bus stand of the KSRTC and the BMTC.
The protesters have been demanding salaries equal to the state authorities workers and compensation much like the COVID-19 warriors within the occasion of demise as a consequence of coronavirus. The state authorities has appealed to the transport division workers to name off their strike as commuters had been going through hardship.
However, the workers had been unrelenting. According to officers of the KSRTC and the BMTC, these firms have suffered a lack of about Rs 6 crore within the final three days.
The state has been witnessing back-to-back protests for the previous 5 days since December 8.
Earlier it was the farmers’ agitation and now the transport workers’ strike.
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