The Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) will deploy about 4,000 buses that would make over 64,000 trips transporting about 30 lakh pilgrims attending the historic Sammakka Sarakka jatara here next month, said its Executive Director G. Satyanarayana.
The RTC will draft 12,000 employees for jatara duties from across the State and set up over 50 pickup points in all the 10 districts. The district administration has earmarked more than 60 acres of land for the RTC to set up its temporary bus station, depot, rest rooms and queue lines among others, said Mr. Satayanarayana, who was addressing the leaders of various employees’ unions, apprising them of arrangements being made for the jatara.
“This is a stupendous event which needs employees to sacrifice a lot and dedicate themselves to ensure smooth conduct of the jatara,” he explained to leaders.
Mallesham and Venkanna of Employees’ Union, Ashok and Babu of TMU, Reddy and Yakaswamy of NMU and Chander and Yadagiri of SWF explained the short comings during the jatara at the meeting.
They wanted the management to enhance the over time allowance, ensure proper rest rooms, food and queue management. The Ticket Issuing Machines (TIMs) should be checked before deploying them as a small technical snag may delay the operations at the peak time.
Warangal Region Manager E. Yadagiri urged the employees to cultivate a sense of service and cooperate with the management ignoring trivial issues as it was keen on looking after the welfare of the employees. “The management expects discipline, commitment and dedicated service during the jatara,” he said.
Additional SP John Wesley said police would cooperate with the RTC employees to make the jatara a success.
RTC Regional Managers V. Chandrasekhar (Karimnagar), M. Vijay Kumar (Adilabad) and G. Ramakanth (Nizamabad), security officers V. Surender Reddy, staff college principal V. Bhaskar Rao and others were present.
The corporation to draft 12,000 employees for jatara duties and set up over 50 pickup points in all the 10 districts
