PRTC staff to get jackets soon

Gagan K Teja

Tribune News Service

Patiala, October 21

In order to give a different look to the Pepsu Road Transport Corporation (PRTC) employees and make it easy for the people to recognise the staff members, the corporation will be issuing jackets to its employees from November onwards. 

The authorities have tied up with a private company for providing the jackets that will carry the company logo along with that of the PRTC. 

This will be a part of their winter uniform from the first week of November. 

It is a part of the PRTC proposal to provide complete uniforms to its staff members, which are about 3,300 in number, including 1,500 drivers, 1,500 conductors and 300 inspectors.

Moreover, the colour of the jackets for drivers and conductors will be grey while that for the inspectors will be sky blue so as to differentiate between them.

Some of the employees are regular, which include 316 drivers and 367 conductors, whereas 224 drivers and 263 conductors are under direct contract of the PRTC. Moreover, 675 drivers and 988 conductors have been hired by the PRTC through outsourcing.

PRTC managing director Manjit Singh Narang said the corporation had got these jackets sponsored in order to make the identification of the staff easy.  He further informed that the jackets had been sponsorsed by ‘Ashok Leanage Limited’ from where the corporation get its chassis of the buses manufactured.