[sustran] National demonstration planned against draft Road Transport and Safety Bill, 2014 on Friday

Vinay Baindur yanivbin at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 03:21:15 JST 2014


http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/demonstration-planned-against-draft-transport-bill/article6659110.ece?ref=sliderNews


*Demonstration planned against draft transport Bill*

ANIL KUMAR SASTRY

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The National Federation of Indian Transport Workers has planned a
nationwide demonstration on Friday against the draft Road Transport and
Safety Bill, 2014. The federation has said the proposed Bill will sound the
death knell for State transport undertakings (STUs).

While a section of transport workers would participate in the ‘Delhi Chalo’
agitation on Friday, different transport trade unions would hold
demonstrations across the country, including in Karnataka.

The KSRTC Staff and Workers Federation has urged its members to participate
in the demonstration in the interest of the STUs. In an appeal, the
federation said within seven months of coming to power, the Narendra Modi
government was making all attempts to sell the wealth of the country to the
private sector and the proposed Bill was one such attempt. Besides this,
legislation on labour matters too were either being amended or scrapped, it
said.
*Federation claim*

The proposed Bill, if enacted, would wipe out State transport undertakings
and result in the monopoly of the private sector. Not only the industry
would be hit, the public too would severely be affected by this move, the
federation claimed. The quantum jump in punishments for road offences would
ensure that no driver would be available in the future in the country, the
appeal said.

The federation would take out a protest march from Town Hall to Freedom
Park in Bengaluru on December 5, 2014.


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