JAIPUR: At least 40 women got jobs as bus conductors with the Rajasthan State Roadways Transport Corporation (RSRTC) buses on compassionate grounds after the death of their husbands, but none of them are working as bus conductors. Now it seems that there will not be any women bus conductors ever in the state as the RSRTC has decided to give these women jobs as clerks and other jobs.
Within a few months of joining various depots across the state, these women approached the RSRTC unions and urged them to take up their matter. Senior officials of the RSRTC said that these women after joining as bus conductors between 2009 and 2010 never worked there as they did not want to do so.
Raj Bihari Sharma, a union leader of the RSRTC employees union, talking to TOI on Monday said, "After the death of their husbands as drivers or conductors, the RSRTC administration was rigid. They were told that if they want a job on compassionate grounds they will have to join as bus conductors. Since it was a source of earning bread and butter for their families, these women initially agreed and later we put it in our charter of demands to depute them in office jobs."
"Later, in order to demoralize them the RSRTC administration asked them to appear for the typing test for the posts of LDCs (lower division clerk) and UDCs (upper division clerk) which was not feasible. Majority of the women who got jobs after the death of their husbands were illiterate, thus we forced the administration to give them jobs as LDCs and UDCs without a typing test and we won the battle," Sharma added.
A woman who works as LDC at the central bus stand said, "It was difficult for me to take care of the family and also work in the field. As a bus conductor you have to do night shifts for a long journey which was not feasible for us. We are happy to get the clerical position."
Sources added that with this kind of approach of the women the RSRTC administration has decided not to offer jobs as bus conductors to the widows of their employees who worked at the same posts.
"As per the rule only the adult son of the deceased is given the job as bus conductor on compassionate grounds. For a woman seeking job on compassionate ground whose children are below 18 years of age, we send them for office jobs," said a senior officer.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-18/jaipur/35890052_1_bus-conductors-rsrtc-compassionate-grounds
Within a few months of joining various depots across the state, these women approached the RSRTC unions and urged them to take up their matter. Senior officials of the RSRTC said that these women after joining as bus conductors between 2009 and 2010 never worked there as they did not want to do so.
Raj Bihari Sharma, a union leader of the RSRTC employees union, talking to TOI on Monday said, "After the death of their husbands as drivers or conductors, the RSRTC administration was rigid. They were told that if they want a job on compassionate grounds they will have to join as bus conductors. Since it was a source of earning bread and butter for their families, these women initially agreed and later we put it in our charter of demands to depute them in office jobs."
"Later, in order to demoralize them the RSRTC administration asked them to appear for the typing test for the posts of LDCs (lower division clerk) and UDCs (upper division clerk) which was not feasible. Majority of the women who got jobs after the death of their husbands were illiterate, thus we forced the administration to give them jobs as LDCs and UDCs without a typing test and we won the battle," Sharma added.
A woman who works as LDC at the central bus stand said, "It was difficult for me to take care of the family and also work in the field. As a bus conductor you have to do night shifts for a long journey which was not feasible for us. We are happy to get the clerical position."
Sources added that with this kind of approach of the women the RSRTC administration has decided not to offer jobs as bus conductors to the widows of their employees who worked at the same posts.
"As per the rule only the adult son of the deceased is given the job as bus conductor on compassionate grounds. For a woman seeking job on compassionate ground whose children are below 18 years of age, we send them for office jobs," said a senior officer.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-18/jaipur/35890052_1_bus-conductors-rsrtc-compassionate-grounds
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