Bengaluru, July 18 -- Pressing for fulfilment of demands, the Joint Action Committee of six Karnataka State Transport Corporation Employees' Unions (KSRTC, NWKRTC, KKRTC and BMTC) has called for an indefinite transport strike from Aug. 5.

Addressing a press meet on behalf of the Committee here, KSRTC Staff and Workers Federation President H.V. Anantha Subbarao alleged that the State Government is not responding to the demands of the transport employees.

Maintaining that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has failed to keep his promise of convening a meeting of transport employees for discussing fulfilment of their demands, he said that the employees will stop bus services from 6 am on the morning of Aug.5, marking the launch of the indefinite ...