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Sunday, Dec 11, 2005

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KSRTC unions on the warpath

Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The employees' organisations of the KSRTC led by the KSRT Employees Association, affiliated to the CITU, are on the warpath against what they describe a move to privatise the corporation.

General secretary, association, K.K. Divakaran said in a statement here on Saturday that they would organise a day's token strike on December 29 in protest against the move. The organisations will form `human walls' at all the KSRTC depots on December 27. If the Government fails to change its policy, the employees will go on an indefinite strike in February.

He stated that the UDF Government had been making a planned move during the last four and a half years to close down the KSRTC. The decision not to make any capital investment was part of the move. The Government had made it clear in the white paper brought out by it that the institution would not be developed. It had made a bid to downgrade 32 depots as operating centres.

The employees had to organise an agitation with the people's participation to thwart the bid. Although the Government allowed free travel to the tune of Rs.145 crores, it did not use it for the benefit of the KSRTC.

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