Family members of NWKRTC staff join strike in Belagavi
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NWKRTC staff continued their strike for the third day in Belagavi on Sunday. Wives, husbands and kids of staff joined the protesters in the Central Bus Stand. They sat for hours holding placards, walked on their knees and staged a half-naked protest by eradicating their shirts. They additionally raised slogans towards Deputy Chief Minister and Transport Minister Laxman Savadi.
The strike continued in Vijayapura, Bagalkot and Hubballi-Dharwad too. In Vijayapura, NEKRTC buses remained largely off the street for the third day on Sunday.
Drivers and conductors of NEKRTC boycotted work and staged a protest towards the State authorities, with calls for like regularisation of providers as transport division staff.
A driver mentioned that it was a long-pending demand however successive governments had didn’t fulfil it. NEKRTC officers mentioned that the division had suffered a loss of ₹ 18 lakh per day.
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