Saturday, January 10, 2009

Transporters strike enters sixth day

The stalemate between the government and truckers continued for the sixth day on Saturday despite the arrest of two top leaders of All India Motor Transport Congress. “There shall be no talks untill the arrested leaders are unconditionally released without any cases against them," AIMTC had said on Friday.

Its impact is now being felt across India with prices of vegetables and other commodities slowly shooting up.

The industrial belt of Coimbatore is one of the cities that has been hit hard. On the other side of this industrial city, at a small-scale industry in SIDCO, finished goods have stagnated. The small enterprises here have already been crippled by the economic slowdown and the dwindling power situation has made situation bad from worse.
The government had already announced its plans to press 15-20 lakh vehicles and impounding of trucks to ensure supply of essential commodities, especially food stock.

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