Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Sep 29: Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation Employees Association (INTUC), has urged the police department to register a case against people who stopped a KSRTC bus near Arkula and thrashed its driver recently.

Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday September 28, general secretary of the association’s Mangalore division, K S Ratnakar, said that the driver of a KSRTC bus belonging to Kundapur division had been dragged out and assaulted by a gang at Adyarkatte on September 25. He condemned the act.

He also demanded for doing away with the present system for central level recruitment prevalent in KSRTC, and demanded for the decentralisation of the system to division level. He felt that the decentralisation will benefit local candidates, who otherwise are likely to be deprived of the employment opportunity. “If the government wants to retain recruitment process at central level, it should give reservation to local candidates. It should also bring down the minimum qualification from SSLC to seventh standard,” he demanded.

Union representatives, Shashiraj Ambat, Yousuf, and Jagannath Alva, were present at the press conference.