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APSRTC goes for job cuts
The cash-strapped Andhra Pradesh Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) post bifurcation is seriously working on decreasing the number of workers as part of reducing expenditure.
Vijayawada: The cash-strapped Andhra Pradesh Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) post bifurcation is seriously working on decreasing the number of workers as part of reducing expenditure.
The corporation is taking steps to curtail thousands of staff in all bus depots across the State and the move is causing growing gap between management and workers.
Besides, it is working on increasing non-ticket revenue and extending the repayment period of loans that the corporation had taken from different banks and financial institutions.
The RTC has failed in making significant progress to improve its financial conditions despite the management is conducting several “brainstorm sessions” for some months by spending lakhs of rupees during its difficult times.
In this backdrop, the authorities are considering two major points – curtail the number of workers and increasing non-ticket revenue.
According to a senior official, the RTC is of the view to curtail 15,000 workers in various sections and out of them around 40 percent had already been decreased.
Authorities are also conducting a work study and a time study of employees as part of curtailing the number of employees, he said. The corporation is also implementing unauthorised ban on recruitment.
Recently, the corporation removed around 600 outsourcing workers and an exercise is on to take away ‘unnecessary’ outsourcing staff from various sections. It has already curtailed 10,000 staff in the last 10 years by reducing staff-bus ratio to 5.41 from 6.25 percent.
As part of this exercise, the RTC is taking steps to entrust several maintenance works to private organisations, including sweeping and washing of buses.
“The management is going to entrust online reservation to a private organisation. It is maintaining private conductors in hire buses.
Sweeping and washing of buses had already been entrusted to private organisations,” said Palisetti Damodar, employees’ union general deputy secretary.
On other hand, the officials are seriously working on increasing non-ticket revenue through delivering cargo, courier services and stalls in RTC bus stations.
An officer said that the management was considering to get maximum revenue from commercially viable vacant lands of RTC in the state.
Besides, there is an exercise to persuade banks and financial institutions for getting favour to extend repayment period of loans that was taken by RTC from six years to twelve years.
