APSRTC females workers staging a tell searching for instantaneous redressal of their pending considerations, at Dharna Chowk in Vijayawada on Tuesday.
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Ladies workers of the Andhra Pradesh Vow Aspect road Transport Company (APSRTC), below the banner of the RTC Ladies Workers’ Convening Committee, staged a tell irritating instantaneous resolution of their pending grievances, at Dharna Chowk in Vijayawada on Tuesday.
Vow convenor of the committee, Ch. Rajeshwari, stated almost 7,000 females had been working in APSRTC as fashioned, contract, and outsourced workers, but their repeated representations to the management had long gone unanswered. She stated work stress and discrimination had elevated, namely after the implementation of the ‘Stree Shakti’ free hump device, ensuing in physical and mental stress. She demanded a month-to-month particular criticism day to address females workers’ concerns.
Shramika Mahila Convening Committee leader and CITU Vow secretary Dhanalakshmi stated females workers had been facing serious health considerations attributable to excessive workload. Though the Stree Shakti device became intended to make stronger RTC, lack of further buses and workers had elevated the burden on females conductors and drivers, causing exhaustion, relieve difficulty and other health considerations.
Co-convenor A. Seethalaxmi stated while occupancy ratio (OR) had long gone up below the device, running schedules had no longer been revised, ensuing in delays and extended responsibility hours. She alleged that females workers had been usually pressured to work time beyond regulation they usually usually returned home late at night, namely when buses rupture down or had been caught in site visitors.
The protesting females demanded implementation of child care mosey away and month-to-month particular mosey away, an cease to ‘pressured time beyond regulation’, improved restroom facilities, revised running schedules, formation of sexual harassment prevention committees, strict motion in opposition to harassment of females conductors, responsibility concessions for females above 50 years, steps to safe particular that that their responsibilities cease sooner than 9 p.m. and installation of conductor doorways in all buses.
Vow secretary of the Communist Event of India (Marxist), V. Srinivasa Rao, criticised the alleged privatisation of depots below the pretext of introducing electrical buses and demanded that the executive take care of workers’ grievances correct away.
A memorandum became submitted to the APSRTC Vice-Chairman and Managing Director N. Balasubramanyam, urging the management to salvage to the underside of the considerations at the earliest.
Published – February 24, 2026 09:30 pm IST
