Govt bus driver’s ‘drape’ protest makes heads turn
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:03.07.2018
Passengers who boarded a government bus at the Erode stand on Sunday were taken aback when they saw the driver clad in a strange uniform.
He had draped himself in a shawllike khaki cloth when behind the wheel as a sign of protest against the non-payment of stitching charges by the government for the uniform.
Two sets of uniform material are given to all bus conductors and drivers working in the eight different state transport corporations. A stitching charge of ₹280-₹320 per uniform is given to all the employees as soon as they receive the clothes in the month of March.
“I have not been paid the stitching charges for nearly three years in a row. I don’t have enough money to pay the tailor and both the uniforms which I managed to stitch using money from my own pocket have been worn out,” said the driver in a video shared widely on several social media platforms.
The driver claimed that besides this the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) Coimbatore Ltd had not provided new footwear for more than 12 years which goes against government policies.
In the video, he also said that he was being transferred after he questioned the alleged misuse of funds allocated under these heads.
TNSTC authorities refused to comment when TOI contacted them.
Many other corporations including the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) in Chennai had defaulted on payments in connection with this and other benefits were also not released properly.
This is the second video concerning government bus drivers that has gone viral in two days.
On Sunday, a video clip showed a government driver reading a newspaper as he was piloting the bus which plying from Thiruvanmiyur and Avadi in Chennai’s suburbs went viral on social media.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:03.07.2018
Passengers who boarded a government bus at the Erode stand on Sunday were taken aback when they saw the driver clad in a strange uniform.
He had draped himself in a shawllike khaki cloth when behind the wheel as a sign of protest against the non-payment of stitching charges by the government for the uniform.
Two sets of uniform material are given to all bus conductors and drivers working in the eight different state transport corporations. A stitching charge of ₹280-₹320 per uniform is given to all the employees as soon as they receive the clothes in the month of March.
“I have not been paid the stitching charges for nearly three years in a row. I don’t have enough money to pay the tailor and both the uniforms which I managed to stitch using money from my own pocket have been worn out,” said the driver in a video shared widely on several social media platforms.
The driver claimed that besides this the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) Coimbatore Ltd had not provided new footwear for more than 12 years which goes against government policies.
In the video, he also said that he was being transferred after he questioned the alleged misuse of funds allocated under these heads.
TNSTC authorities refused to comment when TOI contacted them.
Many other corporations including the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) in Chennai had defaulted on payments in connection with this and other benefits were also not released properly.
This is the second video concerning government bus drivers that has gone viral in two days.
On Sunday, a video clip showed a government driver reading a newspaper as he was piloting the bus which plying from Thiruvanmiyur and Avadi in Chennai’s suburbs went viral on social media.
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