Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandra Sekhar Rao asked the TSRTC employees to join their duties on or before November 5^th midnight unconditionally. This is the last chance to the employees to save their jobs, he said.

      Speaking in a press conference at Pragathi Bhavan on Saturday evening, after the cabinet meeting, KCR said that the cabinet discussed on the RTC demands and came to an understanding, it is not possible to merger the RTC into the Government. The Government also decided to privatise the RTC buses 5, 100 and issue permits to them. The remaining 5, 100 buses will be with the RTC. If the employees join within the stipulated date November 5, the Government will run RTC with 50% buses. KCR also said that the cabinet decided to go for 50% privatization as per the Motor Vehicle Transport Amendment Act- 2019. In this Act the Union Government categorically said in the section- 67 to go for privatization 50-50.      He said the RTC strike was meaningless and the workers had gone on strike against the Government’s advice. The Joint Commissioner of Labour has declared the strike illegal; once this happens, relations between the management and workers are cut off. He said there was no compulsion on the part of the Government to implement the schemes and programmes of AP. Mr. Rao asked the BJP why it had not protested when the Centre had enacted the law that allowed 50% private services in RTCs.