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| Strike enters 21st day today | | SRTC employees doubt intentions of state government | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept15- The criminal silence adopted by the state government with regard to sorting out mess in the State Road Transport Corporation has led to a whisper campaign about the future of the corporation in the long run.
Interestingly, the manner in which the state government has chosen to ignore the plight of the SRTC employees, sitting on strike for last 21 days, does raise a question or two about the intentions of the state government as well.
On Tuesday as the strike entered in to its 21st day, the employees of the SRTC showed signs of fatigue and frustration.
Though they took out a big procession and held protest demonstration outside their office in Bikram chowk but the vigour with which they normally held demonstrations was somewhat missing among the employees as they have exploited all forms of protest to convey their misery to the mandarins sitting in the higher echelons of power.
While doing so the SRTC Workers Union representatives flayed the state government for
adopting a criminal silence and also shouted slogans “pay our salaries or vacate the chair”.
“We do not trust the intentions of the state government as they have shown little interest in addressing our genuine grievances”, representatives of the SRTC workers union said sitting on a dharna.
It may be mentioned that for last 21 days the entire fleet of the SRTC is jammed and parked across different workshops and yards.
Each day the Corporation is incurring a loss to the tune of Rs. 20-22 lakh and is already running in red owing to malpractices of the management of the Corporation. The state transport minister and other senior bureaucrats of the transport department have till date shown very little inclination towards resolving the long pending demand of regular payment of salaries, employees’ leaders argued raising question mark over the intentions of the state government.
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