Telangana To Privatise 50% Buses, Striking Employees Get 3-Day Deadline

Even as the Telangana bus transport strike neared the one-month mark, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday announced the privatisation of 50% of the state's bus services.
After a nearly five-hour marathon cabinet meeting earlier in the day, the chief minister announced that as many as 5,100 private buses would be given permits to run on specified routes.
The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) used to run 10,400 buses, out of which over 2,000 buses were already private and another 2,000 were in a dilapidated state, he said.
Mr Rao said that the privatisation move, which is being opposed by trade unions, is a policy decision of the cabinet and cannot be reversed by anybody.

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He also pointed out that the central government's recent amendment of the Motor Vehicles Act allows states to privatise in order to ensure sustainability.

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