Ten days after over one lakh employees of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation called off their strike, the corporation has decided to deduct their 36 days' salary.

The salary will be deducted over six months. The strike, for salary hike as per the recommendations of the seventh pay commission, lasted four days. "Following the high court's order which declared the strike as illegal, an action has been initiated and the legal section has issued a circular in accordance with the law to deduct 36 days' salary of the staff who resorted to agitation and put the corporation and lakhs of passengers in trouble," a senior MSRTC official told PTI. Apart from the four days of the strike, the agitating employees will not be paid for additional 36 days in the next six months.