Private bus driver, conductor booked for excess fare due to ongoing strike in TN
7 years, 2 months ago

Private bus driver, conductor booked for excess fare due to ongoing strike in TN

Deccan Chronicle  

Salem: In a stunning fallout of the strike by the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation workers which entered the third day on Saturday, a private bus conductor and a driver were booked in Salem for allegedly collecting excess bus fares from passengers, who would have otherwise been left stranded to fend for themselves due to the ongoing strike. However, with some private bus operators beginning to “exploit” the situation by collecting excess bus fares, in the backdrop of a majority of the TNSTC buses in Salem and Namakkal divisions off the roads for the last two days, few complaints began to trickle in from members of the public, sources told DC here. The officials, to their pain and shock, found that passengers were fleeced by some of the private bus operators, charging Rs 100 per ticket against Rs 72 for Tirupathur from Salem and even collecting Rs 200 a ticket for destinations originally charged only Rs 123. In this connection, officials booked a private bus driver Thirupathi and conductor Dinesh and the excess amount collected by them from the passengers were returned.

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Tamil Nadu: Class 12 student forced to run behind bus on Board exam day after it skips stop; TNSTC driver suspended, conductor fired
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4 days, 13 hours ago

Tamil Nadu: Class 12 student forced to run behind bus on Board exam day after it skips stop; TNSTC driver suspended, conductor fired

The Hindu  

A Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus driver was suspended and a conductor who was hired on a contract-basis was fired, after the crew failed to halt the vehicle at a bus stop in Kothakottai village in Tirupattur district on Tuesday, forcing a Class 12 student to run behind the bus to board it. To get today’s top stories from …

Tamil Nadu’s Move Towards Private Bus and Minibus Sparks Privatisation Fears Among TNSTC Employees
1 month ago

Tamil Nadu’s Move Towards Private Bus and Minibus Sparks Privatisation Fears Among TNSTC Employees

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 24, 2025 23:17 IST - 13 MINS READ When the Tamil Nadu government announced it would operate private buses on a contract basis alongside State-run buses during Deepavali 2024, the public cheered the move, welcoming the effort to manage the holiday rush and ensure smoother travel. Arumugam Ramalingam, general secretary of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporations …

Assault on NWKRTC bus conductor leads to suspension of some bus services; four held
1 month, 1 week ago

Assault on NWKRTC bus conductor leads to suspension of some bus services; four held

The Hindu  

The case of assault on a NWKRTC bus conductor for asking a passenger to speak in Kannada took another turn on Saturday, with a counter case under the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act being filed against the bus conductor. Members of the Karnataka Nava Nirmana Sene stopped a Maharashtra State transport bus near Chitradurga and …

Salem: Driver suspended after TNSTC bus plunges off hill, injuring seven persons
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Salem: Driver suspended after TNSTC bus plunges off hill, injuring seven persons

The Hindu  

Seven people, including three schoolchildren, were injured after a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation bus overturned, plunging off a hill into a farmland 10 feet below in Attur block on Wednesday morning. 33, driven by Selvaraj, was proceeding from Attur bus stand to Thavalapatti in Paithur panchayat. It was initially reported that while navigating the hilly terrain, the bus experienced …

400 cases booked against private bus operators for regulatory infractions in Hyderabad
2 months, 2 weeks ago

400 cases booked against private bus operators for regulatory infractions in Hyderabad

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD: Over the past week, inspections conducted by the Transport department resulted in the registration of around 400 cases against private bus operators for regulatory infractions. Chandrashekhar Goud, joint transport commissioner, Rangareddy, told TNIE, “Due to Makar Sankranti, we have conducted multiple inspections over the past four to five days. Fines have been imposed on private bus operators found not …

AP transport dept slaps Rs 1 crore fine on private bus operators for charging excess fare
2 months, 2 weeks ago

AP transport dept slaps Rs 1 crore fine on private bus operators for charging excess fare

New Indian Express  

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh Transport Department has slapped a fine of around Rs 1 crore on private travel bus operators for violating rules, and charging exorbitant fares from travellers during Sankranti festival season. Following complaints from public on the exorbitant fares, State Transport Commissioner Manish Kumar Sinha directed the RTA to initiate action against the private bus operators, who resorted …

Passengers suffer as contractual bus staff continue strike in Mohali
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Passengers suffer as contractual bus staff continue strike in Mohali

Hindustan Times  

Passengers in Chandigarh and Mohali were on the receiving end on the second day of the strike by the contractual employees of Punjab Roadways and PEPSU Road Transport Corporation. Most government buses remained off the roads at the Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Inter-State Bus Terminus, Phase 6, Mohali, leaving the passengers stranded. Private buses are too expensive.” Meanwhile, private bus …

Andhra private bus operators hike fares ahead of Sankranti
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Andhra private bus operators hike fares ahead of Sankranti

New Indian Express  

VIJAYAWADA: Transport Commissioner Manish Kumar Sinha warned that special enforcement drives will be conducted to check fare hikes during the Sankranti festival season. Private bus operators have defied government orders to keep fares in line with RTC rates and are charging twice or thrice the regular prices on major routes across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Despite the Road Transport Authority’s …

Bus crew shortage, mismanagement cost Tamil Nadu STUs Rs 495 crore, says CAG report
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Bus crew shortage, mismanagement cost Tamil Nadu STUs Rs 495 crore, says CAG report

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: The cancellation of scheduled trips due to shortage of crew to operate buses has resulted in the State Transport Undertakings in Tamil Nadu reporting a total revenue loss of Rs 495.27 crore from 2017-18 to 2021-22. A report of the office of Comptroller and Auditor General tabled in the Assembly on Tuesday, however, revealed that hundreds of bus drivers …

RTA Takes Action Against Private Bus Operators During Dasara Rush
5 months, 2 weeks ago

RTA Takes Action Against Private Bus Operators During Dasara Rush

The Hindu  

Road Transport Authority (RTA) in Andhra Pradesh has booked cases against 151 private bus operators and seized 16 buses for fleecing passengers during the Dasara festival rush. The department conducted a special drive from October 3 to 12 to check the practices of private bus operators and ensure that they adhere to the norms. A fine of ₹28,24,654 was collected …

Free-for-all at Gandhipuram bus stand in absence of Checking Inspectors
6 months, 1 week ago

Free-for-all at Gandhipuram bus stand in absence of Checking Inspectors

New Indian Express  

COIMBATORE: Passengers boarding buses from Gandhipuram Central Bus Stand complain that the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation, Coimbatore region does not deploy Checking Inspectors to regulate buses and guide them during weekend and festival time when there is huge rush. “During the weekend and festive times, a large number of passengers reach the central bus stand to travel to their …

Move to appoint drivers and conductors on contract basis shocks employees
9 months, 1 week ago

Move to appoint drivers and conductors on contract basis shocks employees

The Hindu  

An The The e-tenders can be downloaded from www.tntenders.gov.in and uploaded on the same portal, the The unexpected development has shocked the transport corporation employees and trade unions. The trade union representatives said the wage settlement talks for the transport workers are yet to be conducted even after four years while recruitment of drivers, conductors and technical staff remains frozen …

T.N. bus strike | Madras HC succeeds in persuading trade unions to suspend the strike till January 19 in public interest
1 year, 2 months ago

T.N. bus strike | Madras HC succeeds in persuading trade unions to suspend the strike till January 19 in public interest

The Hindu  

The Madras High Court on Wednesday succeeded in persuading the State transport corporation trade unions to suspend the bus strike till January 19, in the interest of the people dependent on public transport for travel during the Pongal season. Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy recorded the submissions made by Senior Counsel Vijay Narayan, representing Anna …

Tamil Nadu transport workers declare indefinite bus strike from today
1 year, 2 months ago

Tamil Nadu transport workers declare indefinite bus strike from today

Live Mint  

Tamil Nadu transport workers' unions have announced an indefinite bus strike from Tuesday, January 9. However, the transport strike called by various transport employee unions demanding the 15th wage revision has not affected the operation of buses including the Metropolitan Transport Corporation today. Tamil Nadu Transport Minister SS Sivasankar inspected Chennai Koyambedu Bus Stand and advised transport officials for smooth …

SETC suspends conductor for disallowing a physically challenged cricketer from boarding a bus
1 year, 11 months ago

SETC suspends conductor for disallowing a physically challenged cricketer from boarding a bus

The Hindu  

The Tamil Nadu State Express Transport Corporation has suspended the conductor who disallowed a physically challenged sportsperson from boarding a bus at the Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. MGR Bus Terminus in Koyambedu on Tuesday night. Confirming the suspension of the conductor, a senior official of the SETC said the conductor Raja attached to the Madurai depot has been suspended based on …

TNSTC Driver, Conductor Suspended For Sexually Assaulting Woman In Moving Bus
3 years, 3 months ago

TNSTC Driver, Conductor Suspended For Sexually Assaulting Woman In Moving Bus

ABP News  

Chennai: A bus conductor from Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation was arrested for sitting near a woman passenger and sexually assaulting her in Villupuram on Friday. According to a report on IANS, a 21-year-old woman who was traveling with her husband gave a complaint to Kaanai police station in Villupuram district alleging that she was sexually assaulted by the conductor …

Karnataka: Bus services hit as RTC workers begin indefinite strike over wage-related demands
3 years, 11 months ago

Karnataka: Bus services hit as RTC workers begin indefinite strike over wage-related demands

Firstpost  

Bengaluru: Bus services were affected in most parts of Karnataka on Wednesday as drivers and conductors of road transport corporations began their indefinite strike on wage-related issues. Workers of BMTC, Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, North Western Karnataka Road Transport Corporation and North Eastern Karnataka Road Transport Corporation, under the banner of Karnataka State Road Transport Employees League, have given …

Transport Employees Stir in Karnataka Enters Second Day; Bus Services Hit
4 years, 3 months ago

Transport Employees Stir in Karnataka Enters Second Day; Bus Services Hit

News 18  

Members of the public suffered as thousands of employees of state-owned transport corporations continued their strike for a second day here on Friday pressing various demands resulting in disruption of services. Thousands of government buses did not operate due to the stir by transport corporation employees demanding salaries on par with state government employees among others. According to sources in …

Commuters in Chennai hit by bus strike over salary row
5 years, 8 months ago

Commuters in Chennai hit by bus strike over salary row

India TV News  

Thousands of bus commuters suffered on Monday as employees of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation struck work over not get getting their full salary. Bus drivers and conductors members of opposition-affiliated unions struck work, putting the people to a great difficulty. But the management treated the workers like slaves saying that only 62 per cent of the take-home pay will be …

Fake ticket racket in STC: 3 staff suspended
5 years, 11 months ago

Fake ticket racket in STC: 3 staff suspended

Deccan Chronicle  

SALEM: An alleged racket in printing of counterfeit tickets for buses operated by the State-owned Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation has come to light in Salem division, leading to the suspension of three departmental staff working as cashiers in the Erumapalayam depot here. Official sources said on Friday that the racket in printing fake bus tickets was detected when a …

Tamil Nadu transport strike enters 4th day: Agitating unions misleading about wage hike, says transport minister
7 years, 2 months ago

Tamil Nadu transport strike enters 4th day: Agitating unions misleading about wage hike, says transport minister

Firstpost  

Agitating transport unions have been mislead about the wage hike, Tamil Nadu transport minister MR Vijayabhaskar said, as the indefinite strike call given by them entered its fourth day on Monday Chennai: Agitating transport unions have been mislead about the wage hike, Tamil Nadu transport minister MR Vijayabhaskar said, as the indefinite strike call given by them entered its fourth …

Bus crew intent on continuing to strike in Tamil Nadu
7 years, 2 months ago

Bus crew intent on continuing to strike in Tamil Nadu

Deccan Chronicle  

Chennai: Striking transport employees on Sunday refused to budge from their belligerent stand of continuing with their indefinite agitation and announced that they would knock at the doors of the Madras High Court seeking a review of its verdict asking them to get back to work immediately. On Saturday, he warned the striking employees of the State transport corporations of …

Tamil Nadu bus strike enters third day; thousands affected as transport minister appeals to employees to resume work
7 years, 2 months ago

Tamil Nadu bus strike enters third day; thousands affected as transport minister appeals to employees to resume work

Firstpost  

The indefinite strike by some transport unions in Tamil Nadu over wage-related issues, entered the third day on Saturday, Chennai: The indefinite strike by some transport unions in Tamil Nadu over wage-related issues, entered the third day on Saturday, even as the state government said “many” staff were returning to work and expressed confidence that normal operations would resume by …

Andhiyur MLA drives bus amid workers strike
7 years, 2 months ago

Andhiyur MLA drives bus amid workers strike

Deccan Chronicle  

Salem: Unmindful of consequences, an AIADMK MLA representing Andhiyur in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, Mr. Raja Krishnan, braved to take to the wheels of a State Transport Corporation bus and jolly well drove it from Andhiyur to Bhavani on Friday, after STC workers struck work in response to the trade unions call for an indefinite strike over wage revision and …

15,000 TN buses on strike today over pay scale revision, commuters hit
7 years, 2 months ago

15,000 TN buses on strike today over pay scale revision, commuters hit

Deccan Chronicle  

Rameswaram : An indefinite strike called by the state transport workers' unions in Tamil Nadu has left scores of commuters stranded in various parts of the state. Of the 46 unions that participated in the final round of talks chaired by transport minister, M.R.Vijayabhaskar, held at Chromepet, 13 major unions including Labour Progressive Federation, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, Hind …

‘Bus service hit by 40 per cent’
7 years, 3 months ago

‘Bus service hit by 40 per cent’

The Hindu  

Seeking speedy disbursal of arrears and monetary benefits to the retiring employees, the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation employees resorted to sit-in-stir in front of the TNSTC head office here for the second consecutive day on Friday. Many bus bays exclusively earmarked for the TNSTC buses in the bus stops wore a deserted look during the peak hours, many commuters …

Private buses remain off roads, passengers suffer
7 years, 8 months ago

Private buses remain off roads, passengers suffer

Hindustan Times  

The ongoing strike by city bus operators has paralysed transport services in Dehradun and adjoining areas leaving passengers at the receiving end. The transport department has failed to control it and the loss is solely of bus operators,” said Rajendra Kumar of Dak Pathar City Bus Association. The bus operators alleged that instead of putting a check on vikrams, the …

T.N. bus strike: Madras High Court directs state transport staff to call off strike
7 years, 10 months ago

T.N. bus strike: Madras High Court directs state transport staff to call off strike

The Hindu  

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the striking Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation employees to give up their stir and return to work immediately. The State government said it had so far held five rounds of talks with the unions on a range of issues, including pending post retirement benefits, and added that there is …

Tamil Nadu commuters face a horrid time as buses remain off road due to striking unions
7 years, 10 months ago

Tamil Nadu commuters face a horrid time as buses remain off road due to striking unions

Firstpost  

Many buses continued to remain off the roads with commuters forced to opt for other modes of travel, as the indefinite stir by ten transport unions in Tamil Nadu entered the third day on Tuesday Chennai: Many buses continued to remain off the roads with commuters forced to opt for other modes of travel, as the indefinite stir by ten …

Transport employees’ strike cripples life in TN
7 years, 10 months ago

Transport employees’ strike cripples life in TN

The Hindu  

The strike called by bus transport unions affiliated to opposition parties left commuters stranded across Tamil Nadu on Monday even as the government took several measures including roping in private operators and hiring ad hoc drivers and conductors to maintain bus services. A tripartite meeting between officials of the Transport Department, the Labour Department and office-bearers of unions failed to …

Thanjavur, Tiruchirapalli buses go on strike a day before state-wide stir; commuters stranded
7 years, 10 months ago

Thanjavur, Tiruchirapalli buses go on strike a day before state-wide stir; commuters stranded

Firstpost  

A section of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation employees struck work in Thanjavur and in neighbouring Tiruchirapalli a day ahead of the state-wide stir call by the transport corporations Thanjavur: A section of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation employees struck work in Thanjavur and in neighbouring Tiruchirapalli a day ahead of the state-wide stir call by the transport corporations. As …

Wage revision: Bus staff in parts of TN begin strike as talks with govt fails
7 years, 10 months ago

Wage revision: Bus staff in parts of TN begin strike as talks with govt fails

Deccan Chronicle  

Thanjavur: A section of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation employees struck work in Thanjavur and in neighbouring Tiruchirapalli a day ahead of the state-wide stir call by the transport corporations. As many as 120 government buses and 56 mofussil buses in Thanjavur were not operated after some bus drivers decided to go on strike following reported failure of talks with …

Private bus operators in Punjab call off strike | IndiaTV News
9 years, 10 months ago

Private bus operators in Punjab call off strike | IndiaTV News

India TV News  

Chandigarh: Private bus operators in Punjab today withdrew their strike which they had called over the alleged “haste” shown by state police in registering cases against their drivers and conductors, following an assurance by police that nobody would be arrested without proper probe. The private bus operators had gone on a statewide strike today, hitting transport services in the state, …

Shops closed, bus services suspended
10 years, 6 months ago

Shops closed, bus services suspended

The Hindu  

All shops in Vellore and other parts of Vellore district were closed and bus services suspended or regulated following sporadic incidents of stone-pelting and road blockades by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam volunteers in the wake of the verdict convicting Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case in the Bangalore Special Court on Saturday afternoon. Earlier, AIADMK …

Private bus operators come under fire
11 years, 7 months ago

Private bus operators come under fire

The Hindu  

Private bus operators in the region have raised the hackles of the striking AP State Road Transport Corporation unions by showing what the latter calls ‘utter disregard’ for the ongoing agitation for Samaikyandhra. “When cycle and auto-rickshaw operators who earn meagre income have voluntarily joined the stir, why should private bus operators who earn crores, mostly by fleecing the commuters, …

Private buses stay off road in Kerala, commuters struggle
12 years, 2 months ago

Private buses stay off road in Kerala, commuters struggle

Firstpost  

Thiruvananthapuram: An indefinite strike launched by private bus workers since midnight demanding wage hike has hit the mobility of people across Kerala. Reports from various districts said the impact of the strike was severe in northern and central districts, where people depend heavily on private buses for their movement. All bus workers unions affiliated to major central trade unions including …

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