Mumbai: Operation buses on 247 of the 250 depot of Maharashtra State Road Transport Transport Corporation closed on Tuesday morning when employees MSRTC continued their strike for the 13th day at the request of a company merger with state governments by the state government with the state government to state government part of the state government, officials said.
Lakh passengers facing difficulties due to the state-run bus company stay on the road and they now rely on private vehicles to travel.
After a strike by employees of MSRTC, the Maharashtra government has allowed private buses, school buses, goods vehicles and buses to ferry passengers train contract from Monday night.
An MSRTC officials say only three depots – Gargoti and Kagal in Kolhapur region and Depot Igatpuri in Nashik region – functional on Monday.
Kagal Depot operates partially.
MSRTC employees continued indefinite strike from October 28, at their request will be merged corporation with the state government, but to intensify the agitation of Sunday, after the Diwali festival concludes.
On Monday, stirring ongoing employee has spread to 223 MSRTC bus depot, affect the service and inconvenience lakh passengers statewide.
MSRTC labor demand is that they be treated as employees of the state government.
MSRTC is one of the largest state transport company in the country with a fleet of more than 16,000 buses and approximately 93,000 employees, including the driver and conductor.
Corporations used to transport more than 65 lakh passengers every day before the outbreak of coronavirus years ago.
Bombay High Court on Monday knocked MSRTC employees for “insistence” they do not withdraw their strike despite Maharashtra government extend full cooperation and set up a panel to address the demand for their MSRTC merger with the state government.
“We do not understand why employees MSRTC now has backed away from what they want themselves to the government for consideration,” the bench said, adding the state government has cooperated fully in connection with the worker’s request MSRTC.
Based on the HC order, the state government on Monday established a three-member committee to consider the request MSRTC workers to be treated as employees of the state government.
Government resolution to this effect was issued on Monday night and the organizers even held its first meeting.
But advocates Gunaratan Sadavarte, representing the workers MSRTC, told the court that the government is not in line with the resolution issued in October 2020 in the case of reservations relating to the promotion of employees from the category of scheduled castes and scheduled.
Sadavarte told the court that some MSRTC employees have committed suicide and some of them in their suicide notes blaming the Head of State Minister for the same thing.
The workers, therefore, do not want to pull their attack, he told the court.
Maharashtra Transport Minister Anil Parib said last week that discussions about the demand for MSRTC merger with the state government and other issues related to the loss-making company would occur after Diwali.