Hyderabad (Telangana): The indefinite strike by unions of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) continued for the sixth day on Thursday with the agitating employees staging protests across the state.
With nearly 48,000 employees boycotting their duties and state-run buses staying off roads, the RTC said alternative arrangements were made to run bus services from its fleet. Around 11,000 vehicles including buses were being operated.
In a related development, the vacation bench of the Telangana High Court posted to October 15 the hearing on a petition that sought to declare the strike as "illegal."
The government also submitted before the court a report informing it about the alternative arrangements taken. However, the court asked the government and TSRTC to file a detailed report before it by October 15.
On Sunday, the court had directed the government to submit a report by Thursday, on the alternative arrangements made because of the ongoing strike, besides ordering issuance of notices to two unions of RTC.
The RTC unions through their counsels submitted that as per law they had given strike notices to the government.
The petitioner submitted that citizens were facing inconvenience due to non-plying of buses and sought a direction for an amicable settlement on the issue between the government and the union, and resumption of bus services.
Raising slogans against the state government, hundreds of RTC employees took out protest rallies in different places of the state and demanded that the government fulfil their demands.
In Warangal, the protesters accused the police of behaving in a high-handed manner after several protesters were taken into preventive custody while they were "holding a protest rally in a peaceful manner."
