Leaders of the Andhra Pradesh Public Transport Department (AP PTD- formerly APSRTC) Employees’ Union have urged the management to release payment of allowances pending for the last five months.
In a representation made to the Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of AP State Road Transport Corporation Ch. Dwaraka Tirumala Rao, the union leaders took objection to the practice of forcibly sending RTC drivers on team duties and said the management should desist from it.
The union’s State president P. Damodara Rao said payment of the overtime allowance of the employees had been pending for the last five months, while night shift allowance had not been paid to them for the last 13 months.