Kim James 
The strike has been referred to as the demand for imposing the hike in the Seventh Pay Commission. The Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation has been making this call for the beyond three years.
Ahmedabad: Thousands of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) Thursday personnel proceeded on mass informal go away for a day to press their needs along with a wage hike as in keeping with the Seventh Pay Commission. It left commuters across the nation stranded as GSRTC buses stopped plying. Over 7,000 GSRTC buses are off the roads when you consider that middle of the night, parked in diverse depots of the organization throughout the state.
“We had been the disturbing implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission for the closing three years, but the authorities aren’t heeding our call for,” said Navalsinh Rana, a GSRTC union leader. “If our needs are not met using tonight, we can release an indefinite strike,” Rana stated. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani appealed to the personnel to name off the strike. “This is very unlucky…Their major demand is the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission. We have given the Seventh Pay Commission to the personnel of earnings-making Public Sector Undertakings,” Rupani stated, implying that as GSRTC is making heavy losses, its body of workers can’t get equal gain.
“I could request them to end the agitation at once as it is affecting the people of the kingdom. A decision may be taken approximately their call for of profits hike at a suitable time,” the chief minister stated. However, the three unions of GSRTC personnel, that have shaped a coordination committee for the agitation, maintained that the organization affords a vital carrier, and profitability ought to not be a consideration when handling personnel’ needs.
