Hyderabad: The TGSRTC bus services resumed across the state from the early hours of Saturday after RTC JAC leaders called off their strike late night on Friday, following successful talks with the state govt.The return of buses brought major relief to the public. Services resumed from the first shift, with RTC JAC leaders and management coordinating the restart. Students, office-goers and the general public, especially women, welcomed the end of the three-day strike, though many said such issues should be resolved through dialogue without disrupting services.The strike was withdrawn after 12-hour marathon talks, first with a Vikas Raj-led IAS officers’ committee for four hours, followed by an eight-hour meeting with a ministerial committee led by deputy chief minister Bhatti Vikramarka at the secretariat. At a joint press conference past midnight, Bhatti announced that the Congress govt had agreed to an 11% fitment as part of pay revision for TGSRTC employees, to initiate the process of merging TGSRTC with the state govt, and to revive elections to the recognised union.The JAC leaders thanked chief minister A Revanth Reddy, deputy CM Bhatti Vikramarka, Transport minister Ponnam Prabhakar and others for accepting the key demands.Bhatti said a joint committee of officials and union leaders would be formed to expedite the merger process. He added that remaining demands would be discussed between the JAC and RTC management for resolution.Minister Ponnam called the outcome ‘historic’ in resolving long-pending employee issues.
