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Order on KSRTC division stayed

Staff Reporter

A single judge of the High Court had on July 2 annulled the splitting up of the corporation

KSRTC was divided into four entities
Corporation employees had challenged the Government action

BANGALORE: In what could be termed as a major relief to the State Government and State road transport corporations, the Karnataka High Court on Thursday stayed a single judge order annulling the division of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) into four entities.

The judge had on July 2, 2007 allowed petitions by the workmen of the KSRTC represented by the KSRTC Staff and Workers’ Federation and S. Nagaraj of the office-bearers of the federation, and quashed government notifications “dividing” the KSRTC into smaller corporations.

The single judge had said that the consent of the Centre had not been obtained before the State decided to establish separate road transport corporations for Bangalore (BMTC), and three other corporations covering the rest of the State. Moreover, the losses of one corporation was being subsidised by another.

The State Government, KSRTC, BMTC and other corporations had filed an appeal against the single judge order and also sought a stay of the order.

The appellants said the single judge had granted relief that had not been sought for by either the workmen or Mr. Nagaraj. They said the single judge had failed to take note of the fact that the workmen and others were consulted before the corporations were created.

They also urged a Division Bench, comprising Justice S.R. Bannurmath and Justice A.N. Venugopal Gowda, to stay the single judge order, saying that all the corporations were doing well and any disturbance would lead to serious interruption of transport services n the State.

The Bench, in an interim order, admitted the appeal and stayed the operation of a single judge order. It posted all the appeals to August 29.

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