The Delhi Transport Corporation’s (DTC) contractual drivers and conductors called off their indefinite strike on Friday after DTC administration promised to revoke the termination letters issued to eight employees who had taken took out a protest march from IP Depot to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence in Civil Lines on 5 February in a semi-clad state.
According to DTC Contractual Employees’ Union, which called the strike, the corporation’s administration also agreed to hear their other demands, including permanent jobs and hike in wages.
Giriraj Giri, one of the employees who was terminated, said the DTC chief general manager Subhash Chandra gave an assurance to the protesting staff that their demands would be heard on 8 March.
Giri claimed that the termination letters of three employees had been revoked while those of others would be annulled within a few days. He, however, threatened that if their demands were not heard on 8 March, the employees would launch a massive agitation on 10 March.
According to the union, the corporation has around 13,000 contractual staff. Their major complaint was that they often went unpaid by not getting any bus to operate even after waiting for seven to eight hours at depots.