RAJAHMUNDRYHYDERABAD: The Minister for Roads and Buildings and member of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on RTC affairs, Jakkampudi Ramamohana Rao, has said that a new proposal has come up during the recent talks with trade union leaders on restructuring of the corporation.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the Minister said that a team, comprising union leaders, scribes, Ministers and bureaucrats, would conduct a study tour of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

He said that the team would know about the functioning of road transport system in those States and how they were getting profits after they divided the corporation into three to four separate wings. "Once we divide the corporation, there will be no interference of Government," he observed.

The Minister hoped that they would find a solution to the crisis within a stipulated time.

Answering a question, the Minister said that the Government had given instructions to Collectors and Municipal Commissioners not to give pattas to poor in the urban areas and only to sanction houses under urban housing schemes.

He said that second phase of issue of ration cards would begin in Rajahmundry, Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad.

Talks postponed

RAJAHMUNDRYHYDERABAD: Meanwhile, talks scheduled for Monday were postponed with the Transport Minister, S. Santosh Reddy, falling sick while on a tour to Rajahmundry.

It maybe recalled that soon after the three-day strike, the sub-committee had announced that talks would be resumed and laid emphasis on a three-day intensive round of discussions on July 11, 12 and 13. However, with Mr. Reddy indisposed, discussions were postponed to 3 p.m. on Tuesday. Joint action committee members met the Commercial Taxes Minister, Konathala Ramakrishna, and the corporation Managing Director, M.V. Krishna Rao.

On July 17, day-long discussions would be held at the Administrative Staff College of India here with an Assistant Professor, Gautam Pingle, as coordinator. Experts would analyse corporation's problems threadbare and answer questions from the committee, it is learnt.

Prime on the agenda are the unions' demand of Government guarantee and repaying Rs. 768-crore loan taken by the corporation from LIC and other financial institutions. Other demands were a 15 per cent interim relief for employees and reduction of the Motor Vehicle Tax, to five per cent on rural and two per cent on urban services, on par with Tamil Nadu.

JAC expanded

K. Vijaykumar of the APSRTC Karmika Sangh, affiliated to the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, and Eshwar Rao of the RTC Supervisory Staff Association have been included in the 11-member JAC.

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