After a stern warning to contractual employees of tough consequences, by Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday, agitating teachers have ended their protest, whereas bus drivers and contractors continued their strike.
Due to the ongoing strike by contractual workers from the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), which entered the fourth day on Thursday, commuters have faced a harrowing time across the national capital. Almost 2,500 contractual workers with the DTC are on strike and approximately half the buses are off the road.
Although the government has taken a tough stand against the strikers, commuters have no options but to travel in autos, which are taking undue advantage of the situation by charging high rates.
‘I waited for the bus for over two hours this afternoon at Rajghat bus stand. Thereafter, I had to take an auto and the driver charged me beyond the meter’s readings,’ Sumit Beigh, a resident of Darya Ganj, said.
Most of the buses at DTC bus depots are not plying on road, resulting in trouble for commuters. ‘I didn’t find a single bus when I reached Mukherjee Nagar bus stand this morning. I then hired an auto to go to the Old Delhi Railway station,’ Dr Sunita Gupta, a resident of GTB Nagar, said.
This is fourth consecutive day of strike of the DTC’s contractual driver conductors. ‘Noida’s service of DTC buses has completely been shut. There is no bus after 8 pm in Noida, so we have to wait for hours to get a bus. As Noida’s autos do not enter the national capital, we only depend on DTC and UP Roadways’ services,’ Ram Avtar, a resident of Malviya Nagar, said.
Due to the ongoing strike by contractual workers from the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), which entered the fourth day on Thursday, commuters have faced a harrowing time across the national capital. Almost 2,500 contractual workers with the DTC are on strike and approximately half the buses are off the road.
Although the government has taken a tough stand against the strikers, commuters have no options but to travel in autos, which are taking undue advantage of the situation by charging high rates.
‘I waited for the bus for over two hours this afternoon at Rajghat bus stand. Thereafter, I had to take an auto and the driver charged me beyond the meter’s readings,’ Sumit Beigh, a resident of Darya Ganj, said.
Most of the buses at DTC bus depots are not plying on road, resulting in trouble for commuters. ‘I didn’t find a single bus when I reached Mukherjee Nagar bus stand this morning. I then hired an auto to go to the Old Delhi Railway station,’ Dr Sunita Gupta, a resident of GTB Nagar, said.
This is fourth consecutive day of strike of the DTC’s contractual driver conductors. ‘Noida’s service of DTC buses has completely been shut. There is no bus after 8 pm in Noida, so we have to wait for hours to get a bus. As Noida’s autos do not enter the national capital, we only depend on DTC and UP Roadways’ services,’ Ram Avtar, a resident of Malviya Nagar, said.