Government policies pushed RTC into losses, not the employees: Kodandaram

Suryapet: Telangana Jana Samithi founder president Professor Kodandaram stated that the RTC workers to save the Corporation struggling with losses under compulsion were demanding for the merger.

On Thursday, he met and extended his support to the protesting RTC workers in Suryapet. Speaking on the occasion, Kodandaram said RTC workers were carrying out strike not for their selfish needs, but in the interest of people of the State and to save the Corporation. He condemned the State government's comment on similar demands from other corporations. Stating that RTC was quite different from other corporations, he said RTC was a service-oriented organization.

He informed that of the Rs 3,000 crore losses of TSRTC, the State government has to pay a due of Rs 2,000 crore to the Corporation and added that remaining Rs 1,000 crore loss was not a big problem.

"Workers are not responsible for the losses incurred by the state transport corporation. Losses are due to wrong policies of the State government," he underlined, adding that the government was blaming RTC workers to hide its mistakes and the present strike was revealing all its follies one by one.

The TJS Chief criticized Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao for making the State debt-ridden in the name of Kaleshwaranm, Mission Bhagiratha, Mission Kakatiya and other programmes for his personal name and fame.