TRUCKERS THREATEN INDEFINITE STIR FROM JANUARY 15
Monday, 02 December 2013
| PNS | BALANGIR | in Bhubaneswar
The All
Odisha Truck Owners’ Association on Sunday threatened to go on an indefinite
strike from midnight of January 14-15 next unless their seven-point charter of
demands is fulfilled. This was announced at a Press conference at the end of
the association’s executive body meeting here.
The demands include hike
in freight charges, end of harassment of truckers at the inter-State
check-posts and corruption by MVIs posted there and privatisation of the
registration system.
The association leaders
said the Government last fixed freight charges in 2008 when the diesel price
per liter was Rs 37 as against the present price of Rs 57. The Government has
set up three technical committees to look into this problem since 2008 and the
committees submitted their reports which were never implemented. The
association has tried to appraise the problems to Transport Minister Subrat
Tarai, but he has no time for talks, said association secretary Ravi Satpathy.
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