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Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam police have increased their personnel at the railway station, RTC complex, and the airport following back-to-back complaints of theft. Burglars made off with 90 tolas of gold from a house in Dondaparthy; subsequently, chain snatchers fled with a three-tola gold chain in the CBM compound on Friday night and Saturday. "When Prasad's family was preparing to leave for …

RTC Staff Beset by Pay Dues, Unpaid Arrears, Increased Work and Inhumane Practices

Hyderabad: Having played a crucial role in the statehood movement, employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation are resentful about the treatment meted out to them, with pay revisions remaining on and an increase in workload, among other issues. Increased workload: Workers say that when the Telangana state was constituted, 56,740 employees used to cover 31 to 33 lakh …

TIRUPATI/VISAKHAPATNAM: Cashing in on the Sankranti festival rush, private bus operators have jacked up the fares for buses plying on several routes across Andhra Pradesh as also to neighbouring Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. While the APSRTC has decided not to collect extra fares in the 6,400 special buses in operation during the festival season, private bus operators have increased …

Several petroleum dealers in Anantapur are supplying diesel to the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation at a “competitive price” by quoting the lowest bid at the depot level. The APSRTC switched over to buying diesel from the local dealers at “competitive” price after the petroleum companies increased the price for bulk consumers from March 2022. This apart, there was …

HYDERABAD: TS BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday alleged that the TRS government led by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao has made the lives of common people miserable by increasing various taxes, power tariff and ticket rates for TSRTC buses. “In the last few months, the KCR government indiscriminately increased power tariffs, property tax, drinking water cess, and now …

VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation has hiked ticket fares. APSRTC managing director Dwaraka Thirumala Rao said that the RTC has been burdened by the increase in diesel prices and the bulk rate of diesel has further increased its burden. The RTC MD said the increase in diesel cess will generate an additional revenue of Rs 720 crore …

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Hyderabad: Amid speculation that fuel prices would be increased because of rising cost of crude oil, the state-owned public transporter TS Road Transport Corporation is lobbying for permission to increase ticket fares. RTC-Greater Hyderabad, said, “Within the city limits, there are 3,100 buses.” The RTC covers 8.5 lakh route kilometres and consumes 1.4 lakh litres of diesel a day. Sajjanar, …

Hyderabad: A division bench of Telangana High Court, comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice A. Abhishek Reddy, on Monday issued notices to the state government and TSRTC on a Public Interest Litigation alleging that the number of road accidents in the state has increased due to hiring of untrained drivers to ply RTC buses after the corporation employees …