MUMBAI: State Transport workers who participated in the recent strike and have been dismissed from service will not be reinstated anytime soon, state transport minister Anil Parab informed the legislative council on Monday.
Replying to supplementaries during question hour, Parab said the government on six occasions exhorted workers to resume work promising to withdraw suspension orders, various notices issued to the workers and even police cases. “The striking workers think the government will do nothing but we have a responsibility to the public just as we do to the workers. Those who have been dismissed cannot be reinstated immediately,” he said. Parab said schools, colleges had already started and the ST buses provided a subsidised service to these categories which on account of the workers strike they could not avail of.
A three-member committee is already looking into the merger of the undertaking with the government, he said. Parab added that employees who died on duty during the Covid pandemic and fit in with the guidelines, their families have been provided Rs 50 lakh compensation, those who did not their families were provided Rs 5 lakh by the state transport, he said. BJP MLC Gopichand Padalkar said around 47 workers died during the strike and demanded government pay compensation to their families. Parab said government is considering providing jobs on compassionate grounds to a member of their family.
The MSRTC management announced on Monday evening the dismissal of 174 more employees who had participated in the indefinite strike which has completed two months now. With this, the total number of staffers dismissed so far is 415.
Replying to supplementaries during question hour, Parab said the government on six occasions exhorted workers to resume work promising to withdraw suspension orders, various notices issued to the workers and even police cases. “The striking workers think the government will do nothing but we have a responsibility to the public just as we do to the workers. Those who have been dismissed cannot be reinstated immediately,” he said. Parab said schools, colleges had already started and the ST buses provided a subsidised service to these categories which on account of the workers strike they could not avail of.
A three-member committee is already looking into the merger of the undertaking with the government, he said. Parab added that employees who died on duty during the Covid pandemic and fit in with the guidelines, their families have been provided Rs 50 lakh compensation, those who did not their families were provided Rs 5 lakh by the state transport, he said. BJP MLC Gopichand Padalkar said around 47 workers died during the strike and demanded government pay compensation to their families. Parab said government is considering providing jobs on compassionate grounds to a member of their family.
The MSRTC management announced on Monday evening the dismissal of 174 more employees who had participated in the indefinite strike which has completed two months now. With this, the total number of staffers dismissed so far is 415.
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