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“AAP”Government Imposed ESMA In Delhi against Agitating Staff Of DTC

May. 11 Murder, Social Cause, Unrest Strikes Comments

[New Delhi] Delhi Government Imposed ESMA against the Agitating Staff.Of DTC
Bus transport services today remained crippled across the city due to a strike by DTC employees demanding a compensation of Rs one crore to the kin of a deceased driver Ashok following which Delhi government clamped Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against the agitating staff.
“Under provision of ESMA, services of striking employees will be terminated if they don’t turn up for work. If any employee disrupts government work then they can be arrested also,
People across the city faced harrowing experience in absence of around 4,000 DTC buses on the first day of the strike by the DTC employees.
DTC driver Ashok Kumar (42) was beaten to death yesterday allegedly by a youth after his bus grazed the latter’s bike in Mundka area of west Delhi. The Delhi government had announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to Kumar’s family.
The strike affected commuting of students in hundreds of schools which had commercial pact with DTC.
Office-goers also had to face lot of difficulty. Auto rickshaws in many areas charged exorbitant fares and the commuters did not have any option but to heed to their demand.

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