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- Government buses jammed in Punjab for the third day, union meeting with Punjab government in Chandigarh today, decision to end the strike after noon
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Private buses seen at Jalandhar bus stand due to government buses strike.
The blockade of 2,000 government buses in Punjab will continue for the third day. However, on Tuesday, the Punjab government had invited the contract workers union for talks. For this, a meeting will be held in Chandigarh in the afternoon on Wednesday. After which a decision can be taken on ending the strike. However, the contract employees say that their strike will continue till their demands are not met. Government buses will not run. However, those who need to go essential, they can go from the bus stand in private buses.
Gurpreet Singh, the district head of the Punbus Contract Workers Union, said that the government has cheated them in the past as well. The meeting has been held till Transport Minister Razia Sultana. Officers take time and don’t listen. So now this indefinite agitation will continue till the government takes a firm decision.
8 thousand employees on strike, invitation for talks after CM’s gherao
At present 8,000 employees of PUNBUS, Punjab Roadways and PRTC are on strike in Punjab. These are all contract employees. In Punjab, the Transport Department has about 1100 buses of PRTC, 450 of Punjab Roadways and about 1200 buses of PUNBUS. Some of these buses are run by government drivers and conductors. Apart from this, all the contract workers of 18 roadways and 9 depots of PRTC in Punjab are involved in the strike. The contract employees had announced on Monday that they would go to Siswan Farm House and gherao CM Captain Amarinder Singh. After this an invitation to talks with the government came.
2 hours before the meeting
To put pressure on the Punjab government, the contract workers union will protest on Wednesday. A two-hour demonstration will be held at all the bus depots from 10 am to 12 noon so that the government can adopt a positive attitude in the talks. The employees say that the sooner the government listens to them, the sooner the troubled passengers will get relief.
Key demands of contract employees
- The government should regularize all the raw employees on the job soon.
- In sporadic cases, the sacked employees should be reinstated.
- A new fleet of 10 thousand government buses should be brought so that people can easily get bus facilities across the state including free travel for women.
- The government should take action on the transport mafia so that the revenue of government buses increases and the government gets profit.
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