{"id":523399,"date":"2022-09-20T10:48:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T05:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=523399"},"modified":"2022-09-20T11:39:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T06:09:34","slug":"karnataka-govt-leasing-e-buses-to-privatise-rtcs-employees-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/karnataka-govt-leasing-e-buses-to-privatise-rtcs-employees-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka govt leasing e-buses to privatise RTCs: Employees&#8217; League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka State Road Transport Employees\u2019 League has said that the state and the central governments are using electric bus procurement as a tool to privatise road transport corporations (RTC).<\/p>\n<p>Members of the League, who held a press conference on Monday,   criticised the gross cost model used for leasing buses from private companies.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Transport Minister R Sriramulu\u2019s announcement that 35,000 e-buses will be leased by 2030, the president of League R Chandrashekhar said the governments are not allowing the RTCs to purchase the e-buses. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, we are made to lease the buses and pay the private companies, who also provide drivers. By 2030, all buses will be private buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka State Road Transport Employees\u2019 League has said that the state and the central governments are using electric bus procurement as a tool to privatise road transport corporations (RTC). Members of the League, who held a press conference on Monday, criticised the gross cost model used for leasing buses from private companies. Referring to Transport Minister R Sriramulu\u2019s announcement that 35,000 e-buses will be leased by 2030, the president of League R Chandrashekhar said the governments are not allowing the RTCs to purchase the e-buses. \u201cInstead, we are made to lease the buses and pay the private companies, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}