The Telangana government is likely to adopt Andhra Pradesh’s model of absorbing Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) employees.
It was on Monday that the Cabinet approved a decision to treat 43,373 TSRTC workers as government employees, a primary demand of TSRTC’s trade unions which Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao dismissed, during the 2019 strike, which left public transport largely affected.
In 2019, Andhra Pradesh issued the APSRTC (Absorption of Employees into Government Service) Act of 2019. Section 3 of this Act states that “employees of the APSRTC shall stand absorbed into Government service into such department.”