HLP asks govt to avoid confrontation with HRTC employees

Himachal Lokhit Party has appealed the state government to avoid confrontation with agitating HRTC employees, as it would cause "inconvenience" to majority of people who depend heavily on road transport.
The Himachal Road Transport Corporation is plying buses in remote areas where roads are in bad condition and private transporters are not willing to operate, party spokesman Mohinder Sofat said.
"In case passenger transport services are disrupted due to the stir people will suffer," Sofat said.
He urged the government to formulate new transport policy, taking the employees unions into confidence.
Sofat said that the experiment of taking Volvo buses on wet lease during the last term of G S Bali as Transport minister from 2003 to 2007 had not succeeded and the losses of HRTC had increased.