The proposed strike by the Uttarakhand Roadways Karmachari Sainyukt Parishad (URSP) was called off on Monday afternoon after the Government accepted majority of the demands of the agitating union.
The URSP is one of the prominent unions of roadways employees of Uttarakhand roadways.
It had given a statewide strike call which was to commence from Midnight of Monday.
To avert the strike the Secretary Transport C S Napalchyal and the Managing Director (MD) of state transport corporation, Brijesh Sant invited a delegation of the union for talks on Monday.
The general secretary of the URSP, Ram Chandra Raturi said that the government has accepted the demand to start recruitment on 677 posts of drivers and 700 posts of conductors in the roadways.
These recruitment would start soon.
He said that another major demand of the union was that no outsource workers would be appointed in state transport carrier and this demand was also accepted by the management. Raturi said after a long agitation the management had already given its nod to convert all the work charge workers of the roadways into contractual workers which would pave way for their permanent appointment.