The MSRTC has threatened to suspend more employees as only 7,541 of the total 92,266 employees resumed work on Thursday. There’s no sign of an end to the strike by protesting staffers with 84,725 employees still adamant on their stand. Some politicians too joined the protesters at Azad Maidan while NGOs are providing the agitators with food and water.

“On Thursday till 8 pm, around 144 buses were operated, ferrying 3,518 passengers. Of these buses, a majority of 19 buses ran between Parel in Mumbai to Pune station, ferrying 433 passengers,” an official statement said. After suspending more than 2,000 employees last week, the transport body has issued notices to around 2,000 more this week, asking them to resume work as early as possible.