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TSRTC unions threaten to stage protest
Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) unions on Tuesday demanded that the Transport Department officials desist from registering 1,000 odd private buses as Arunachal Pradesh scrapped their registrations.
​Hyderabad: Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) unions on Tuesday demanded that the Transport Department officials desist from registering 1,000 odd private buses as Arunachal Pradesh scrapped their registrations.
TSRTC union leaders led by Employees Union general secretary K Raji Reddy called on the Transport Department officials not to register the buses in Telangana State. The union submitted a memorandum to this effect.
Talking to reporters, he said that the Arunachal Pradesh government, in its bid to encourage tourism had brought in a new rule and fixed the annual fee at Rs 17,000 per bus.
Taking advantage of this, the private operators had taken permits in Arunachal Pradesh and were running those buses in Telangana State and Andhra Pradesh illegally.
The TSRTC union leader demanded that the officials seize the buses plying in Telangana State on the strength of permits obtained in Arunachal Pradesh. If these buses were registered in Telangana State earlier, it would have cost Rs 7 lakh more per bus.
The private transport operators took permits in Arunachal Pradesh and operated them in southern States. It resulted in loss of Rs 70 crore as tax (1,000 buses X Rs 7 lakhs) to both the Telugu States, he said. The EU leader hailed the decision of Arunachal Pradesh to cancel the registrations of these buses.
Raji Reddy said the RTC alone has the right to ply the stage carriage buses on the notified routes as per the Motor Vehicle Act. The private buses cannot be operated as stage carriages. However, he added that the private operators were running the buses as stage carriages by taking permits under contract carriage category.
The private operators were openly taking up online bookings and also having booking counters resulting in huge losses to the RTC. He said the AP government had already announced that all such buses should be seized with immediate effect.
Raji Reddy claimed to have information that the private operator mafia was lobbying hard to lobby for registration of their buses in the State. He warned that the TSRTC unions would stage protest if the officials failed to desist from registering these buses.
Meanwhile, TRS MLA V Srinivas Goud said they would not allow the illegal operations by the private buses. “We will stop the buses if they are run on illegal permits. The buses are run against law and the officials are giving permits ignoring TSRTC. The officials should realise that the TSRTC is in losses because of illegal operations of the private buses.”
