Telangana Guv gives nod to TSRTC Bill

Hyderabad Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Sunday finally granted her approval for the introduction of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (Absorption of Employees into Government Service) Bill 2023 in the Telangana State Legislative Assembly, ending the uncertainty prevailing for the last three days.

The bill will now be tabled and approved in the Assembly, whose monsoon session is ending Sunday. The governor gave her approval after a meeting with officials of the transport department and Roads and Buildings department. She earlier sought certain clarifications from the state government.

Along with her approval, the governor has made 10 recommendations to the state government.

She recommended that the ownership of the lands, assets, and properties of the TSRTC should vest with the Corporation itself for its sole and exclusive use, even after the absorption of RTC employees as government employees.