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DTC workers' dharna against privatisation

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI MAY 16. A large number of workers of Delhi Transport Corporation today staged a demonstration against the privatisation of the corporation and to seek reinstatement of nearly 1800 temporary daily-wage conductors who had been ousted from their jobs about a month ago.

The protesters, who gathered at the DTC Headquarters, burnt effigies on the Delhi Government and the DTC Management and raised slogans against what they termed was an autocratic style of governance.

The protesters said it was sad that Ajay Maken, who had in 1988 held a historic hunger strike against the privatisation of DTC, was now as Transport Minister of Delhi promoting the same and was involved in ouster of the temporary employees.

Claiming that the government was deliberately giving inflated figures pertaining to number of employees in DTC, the Unity Centre said this was being done to allot jobs on a contract basis.

Stating that it would not be possible for the conductors to first undertake three years light motor vehicles training before acquiring a heavy motor vehicle licence, the union has demanded that DTC increase its bus strength to 5,000, stops awarding of contracts and privatisation, reinstates the 1800 conductors and introduce time-scale promotions.

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