A major recruitment drive envisaging filling of 3,035 posts, including drivers, shramiks and mechanics in the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TGSRTC), will be taken up through Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) in a transparent manner, said Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar.
A job calendar will be announced soon to fill up the vacancies in a time-bound manner, he said.
Speaking to the media in Karimnagar on Tuesday, the minister thanked Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka for taking a slew of decisions to strengthen the TGSRTC and fill up the vacancies. The Congress government has already provided more than 1,000 jobs to the kin of deceased employees of the TGSRTC on compassionate grounds, he added.
He said the State government is providing funds to the TGSRTC to reimburse free travel by women in the corporation’s buses. The TGSRTC surpassed 100% occupancy rate. In addition to the buses already purchased, plans are afoot to add another 2,000 buses to the fleet of the TGSRTC, the minister noted.
The government already implemented Pay Revision Commission (PRC) with 21% fitment for the TGSRTC employees. The TGSRTC hospital at Tarnaka in Hyderabad is being upgraded into a super-specialty hospital, he said, adding that renewed focus was laid on resolving the remaining pending issues of the employees with utmost priority to their welfare.
Earlier, the minister felicitated the Zilla Parishad chairperson, ZPTC members and MPPs on successful completion of their term 2019-2024 at a meeting held in the Zilla Parishad conference hall in Karimnagar.