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Federation urges Chief Minister to withdraw order to privatise 41 public transport routes

State president of Karnataka State Road Transport Employees Federation K.S. Sharma has urged Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to order immediate withdrawal of a decision on privatising 41 profitable routes in the Kittur and Kalyana Karnataka regions.

The decision to urge the Chief Minister was taken at a recent emergency meeting of the representatives of the federation from the various divisional unions of North-West Karnataka which was presided over by Mr. Sharma.

In an email message to the Chief Minister, which has been released to the media, Mr. Sharma has pointed out the recent decision of Transport Minister B. Sriramulu to privatise 41 profitable routes. It has said that that the decision is in clear violation of last year’s stay order on privatising 44 routes of the region.

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