hyderabad sources stated that Toughening its stance against the striking TSRCTC employees, the telangana government on monday decided not to allow any of them to work after the expiry of the november 5 deadline set by it to rejoin duty. Meanwhile the government said if the employees continued their stir, it would go ahead with the plan to permit private bus operators to run services in 5,000 of the total of 10,400 routes, leading to a situation where the telangana State Road Transport Corporation virtually ceased to exist.
Furthermore employees would solely be responsible for such a situation and should therefore decide whether to save their jobs or trouble their families. Accordingly a meeting chaired by chief minister K chandrasekhar Rao, in which transport minister P ajay Kumar and top officials took part, felt union leaders were giving a false impression to the workers, citing ongoing proceedings in the High Court.
Reportedly "If the high court verdict is (on the) contrary, having come this far on the matter, both the rtc and government will move the Supreme court," the release said. the unions urged the government to hold talks with them to end the nearly month long state-wide strike, even as officials hoped a good number would report for duty by the november 5 deadline. Moreover the leader of employees unions' Joint Action Committee (JAC) E ashwathama reddy claimed that five of the 11 employees who reported for work on sunday following the government's deadline, had since "returned".
