Following a recent protest by outsourced electric bus drivers of the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), transport activists and transport employees’ unions are voicing opposition to the government’s operation of buses under the gross cost contract (GCC) model.
The activists and the unions claim that the GCC model of bus operation is going to lead to the privatisation of the State-run transport corporations.
On May 14, outsourced drivers of electric buses of BMTC Depot Number 3 staged a protest, alleging that the private company operating the electric buses under the GCC model had not paid their salaries.
