The state authorities is all set to take strict motion towards the protesting Maharashtra State Highway Transport Company (MRTC) staff who haven’t resumed duties until Thursday, March 31, as per the ultimatum issued earlier by state deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.

Until Thursday, greater than 45,000 staff haven't resumed duties regardless of a number of rounds of talks between the transport division and the leaders of the protesting staff.

“In the present day was the final day for the employees to affix again and within the night, we are going to get the precise quantity as to what number of of them have joined and what number of have nonetheless not joined work. We tried our greatest to have talks with them and until now, seven rounds of talks have been held however they suppose that solely talks are going down and no motion is being taken. However to show them flawed, we are going to now take strict motion towards these staff who don't resume duties even after March 31,” mentioned Anil Parab, state transport minister.

About different plans for state transport bus operations within the state, he mentioned, “We have now already floated a young for recruiting 11,000 contract- primarily based drivers and conductors throughout the state. Additionally our routes within the rural areas have been finalised and really quickly, we're going to enhance our bus operations throughout the depots. And people who don't resume work, we are going to assume that they don't want the job and so strict motion will probably be taken towards them.”

For the reason that previous over 4 months, the MSRTC staff and their unions have been protesting for numerous calls for. A Kruti Samiti of the unions was shaped earlier to strike a dialog with the state authorities. However apparently, the primary demand of merging the MSRTC with the state authorities was compromised in line with the employees, so now all the employees (aside from the union members) have spontaneously began the strike.

“Presently, there are round 5,000 bus operations occurring each day within the state. Earlier, this quantity was practically 12,000 bus operations. We expect to take this quantity again to pre-protest days with 10,000 each day bus operations and new contract-basis staff becoming a member of duties,” mentioned Parab.