TV
Drivers of government buses, operating under the Location Accessible Multi-modal Initiative (LAccMI) scheme in Cuttack district, resorted to agitation on Friday.
The drivers are not being given their due payment and are working for longer hours than the usual timings, they alleged.
According to sources, hundreds of LAccMI bus drivers have started ‘quit steering’ agitation and are sitting inside Tangi-Choudwar block office premises. The stir will continue so long as their demands are not met, the drivers said.
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“Commitments given to us by our DM (district manager) at the time when we had joined have not been fulfilled. Drivers were posted by giving false commitments at that time. We were told that food allowances of Rs 300 after three months and wage per kilometre after six months will be given to us,” an agitating driver Parikhita Ghadei stated.
“Drivers are getting payment for eight hours of work and working for 12 to 14 hours instead. We are neither finding time to have our food nor to take rest. Even to the extent, we are not being issued salary slips,” Parikhita Ghadei rued.
“We have not got our salaries for the last several months. We have not been issued joining letters and the State Insurance & Provident Fund (SIPF) numbers,” another driver Ratnakar Samal expressed.
No comments were received from the authorities concerned.
