'Spontaneous' stir by MSRTC employees cripples public bus services in Maha

October 28, 2021 11:31

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Services of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) were badly hit across the state since Thursday morning due to a "spontaneous" agitation by its employees over their various demands, including DA merger with salary, officials said.

The bus operations at several depots of the state-run transport undertaking, including at Mumbai Central, where the MSRTC's headquarters is located, were stopped in support of the agitation, they said.

A spokesperson of the MSRTC told PTI that they were in process gathering details, and confirmed that the bus operations at several depots in Maharashtra were affected due to the employees' agitation.

The MSRTC is one of the biggest public transport corporations in the county with a fleet of more than 16,000 buses and around 93,000 employees, including drivers and conductors. Before the pandemic, around 65 lakh passengers used to travel in the MSRTC buses every day.

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