Ludhiana, June 10 -- Public transport services across Punjab are likely to be disrupted on Wednesday as contractual employees of Punjab Roadways, PUNBUS and PRTC decided to proceed with a statewide strike over regularisation, recruitment and privatisation.

Union leaders claimed that government buses would remain off the roads across the state and operations at government-run bus stands would also be disrupted.

The strike has been called by the Punjab Roadways, PUNBUS and PRTC Contract Workers Union. While the Punjab Roadways and PUNBUS staffers began the strike on Tuesday afternoon, the PRTC staff are set to join the agitation on Wednesday.

Jagtar Singh, joint secretary of the PUNBUS union, said the strike will continue until the gover...