Telugu Desam Party MLA Devineni Umamaheswara Rao, on Wednesday, opposed the privatisation of RTC properties and lands in rural areas for mobilizing additional resources.
Talking to media persons at the Assembly media point, he criticized Transport Minister Botsa Satyanarayana for making efforts to hand over the RTC's lands at Podili village (Markapuram mandal, Ongole Town) through tenders to a company called Pratyusha, owned by Minister for Ports Ganta Srinivasa Rao.
He asked the Transport Minister to utilize the vacant land for the development of RTC instead of handing it over to private firms in the name of commercialization.
Stating that RTC employees were also opposed to the privatization of RTC's properties, he accused the Transport Minister of causing huge losses to the RTC by adopting wrong policies.
He warned the government that the TDP would intensify its agitation against the privatization of RTC properties if it does not revoke its decision. (INN)
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