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Auto drivers demand slew of measures
The Telangana State Auto Drivers Joint Action Committee (TSADJAC) staged a protest at Dharna Chowk on Sunday.
The Telangana State Auto Drivers Joint Action Committee (TSADJAC) staged a protest at Dharna Chowk on Sunday. The agitating drivers had a mammoth list of demands that asks the government for provision of insurance for accidents, disabilities, and deaths; ESI health care facilities; scrapping of e-challans levied by traffic personnel; abolishing the minimum qualification of Class VIII for auto drivers; provision of double bedroom houses; creation of Auto Drivers Welfare Board; to stop cab services like Ola, Uber in the city; to take action against shared cabs and autos, which violate traffic rules and road safety; sanction of auto loans to eligible drivers who possess a valid driving license through SC, BC corporations and public sector banks; provision; provision of free uniform for auto drivers; creation of ample auto stands and parking centres at all important points in the city.
G Mallesahm Goud, a member of Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) said, “There are about 1,25,000 autos in GHMC limits, of which 1,0,5,000 are non-transport vehicles and the rest 20,000 are transport vehicles and around 1,47,500 auto drivers. Traffic Police are penalising us through e-challans for violations such as signal jumping, no parking, overload of passengers, etc and we are receiving Rs 135 challan at our residence on a daily basis now. In addition to this in some areas of Hyderabad and in the Cyberabad limits, the violations penalty is Rs 1035 which is high and unbearable for auto drivers.
We are being harassed by traffic cops on petty grounds such as stopping on the road for a minute for passenger convenience, insisting of documents of non-transport vehicles and transport vehicles, for parking on the road that too without providing auto parking areas and for many more issues.” “The government should treat us with compassion and extend their helping hand as we are doing service to lakhs of passengers to reach their destinations day and night at affordable costs as fixed by the government along with safety,” he added.
