Transport Minister Perni Venkatramaiah on Wednesday said steps are being taken for immediate appointment of 1,847 candidates on compassionate grounds to various posts.
Addressing the media, the minister said that 385 members of the families of employees of Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) who died before 2015, soon after the YSR Congress party came to power in the state in 2019 The job was given. This time, the next of kin of RTC employees who have died since 2016 and who died in service during the COVID-19 waves will be appointed.
He said that apart from APSRTC, appointments would be made to the posts in about 40 departments falling under the pool of village and ward secretariats and district collectors.
The minister said that after oil manufacturing companies increased the price of fuel for bulk buyers, APSRTC had started procuring diesel from private bunks and thus about 8 lakh liters of diesel consumed by the fleet of buses per month at ₹ 65 crore was being saved. ,
electric buses
Venkatramaiah said that the long awaited electric buses would come and they would be flagged off by Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The tender process was completed and the buses would arrive in April. He said the plan was to run 50 electric buses on the Tirupati-Tirumala route and a few more from Tirupati to Madanapalle, Kurnool and a few other places.
Shri Venkatramaiah announced that 25% discount in the fare of RTC bus tickets booked for senior citizens during the time of COVID (from May, 2020) will be restored from April 1, he said that with this decision two lakh senior citizens will benefit.
He said the merger of APSRTC has put an additional burden of Rs 3,600 crore on the government. He said the idea was to save the debt-ridden corporation.
The Vice President and Managing Director of the Corporation, Ch. Dwaraka Tirumala Rao was present.