24-07-2025
Road transport corporation employees to launch indefinite strike on August 5
Demanding the release of pending wage arrears as part of implementation of the 2024 wage revision, employees of the four State road transport corporations will launch an indefinite agitation on August 5.
Addressing a press conference in Hubballi on Wednesday, president of the Akhila Karnataka Rajya Raste Sarige Noukarara Mahamandala K.S. Sharma said that the State government has failed to keep its word with regard to implementation of the revised wages.
'The wage revision has to happen every four years. The wage revision of 2016 ended in 2019, but because of COVID-19 pandemic, it was delayed. Ultimately, in 2023, the State government issued an order on 15% wage revision and promised to implement it with retrospective effect (2019). However, till date the wage arrears have not been paid,' he said.
Mr. Sharma said that the Chief Minister recently categorically stated that the wage arrears will not be paid and also that it will not be possible to release revised wages from 2024.
'We are resorting to agitation condemning it,' he said.
He also said that while the State government is celebrating 500 crore free rides under the Shakti scheme, it has not taken into account the efforts of the transport corporation employees that have made it possible. It has completely neglected their rightful demands, he added.
General secretary of the mahamandala B. Jayadevaraje Urs said that while the government is celebrating the success of the Shakti scheme, it is yet to pay ₹3,000 crore due towards the State transport corporations.
Office-bearers of the mahamandala from various districts were present.
