Retired RTC workers demand release of dues
Scores of retired workers of Telangana’s State Road Transport Corporation descended at the Bus Bhavan near RTC Crossroad on Thursday seeking a disbursal of dues
Scores of retired workers of Telangana’s State Road Transport Corporation descended at the Bus Bhavan near RTC Crossroad on Thursday seeking a disbursal of dues and also to underscore whatever they were receiving from the government was grossly inadequate. Taking to the streets, and raising their voice for demands, these retired Road Transport Corporation workers pointed out that post-retirement benefits such as revision of pay arrears from 2017 onwards, PF too were due.
Retired workers raised slogans such as memu emi bikshaku raledu (we are not here for alms), and kotladtham (we will fight [for rights]). The demonstrators carried placards urging the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation management to heed their demands and release funds. The protesters underscored the high cost of living, escalating costs of groceries, and familial duties such as arranging for weddings of their children, and healthcare expenses, and even funeral expenses.
They said that they had submitted representations to senior TGSRTC officials, and were awaiting a positive response. Those who appeared older than others, and frail, either stood on the margins of
the protest, nodding in agreement with the slogans, and speeches. Demonstrators underscored that they had put in decades of service for the transport juggernaut and that this contribution should not be ignored.
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