School buses, taxis, trucks to go on strike in Maharashtra | Explained in 5 points
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Drivers of commercial vehicles like school buses, trucks, cabs, and autorickshaws have announced they would be going on an indefinite strike across Maharashtra from Thursday midnight. This is to protest what they describe as exorbitant e-challan fines. Here is all you need to know about the strike that might hit Mumbai and Pune the most.
Commercial vehicles, including buses on school duty, cabs and trucks, will go on a strike from midnight on Thursday across Maharashtra. The indefinite strike, which is mainly over pending e-challans, is likely to hit Mumbai and Pune worst. The transport unions have eight points of grievance and threatened to block key transport routes with their vehicles.
The transport unions' talks with transport commissioner Rajesh Narvekar on Wednesday evening failed, according to a report in The Times of India.
The Maharashtra Transport Action Committee (M-TAC) said that it would go ahead with the strike. The Maharashtra government has so requested the unions to defer the strike, seeking more time to resolve the issues.
The strike in Maharashtra, which organisers have labelled "chakka jam", is against the pending e-challans, which participants say are difficult and costly to challenge, will see drivers from across the state joining the protest.
According to a report by the news agency, PTI, the M-TAC has claimed that the issue affects "around 1.5 million transport operators in Maharashtra, as well as lakhs of private vehicle owners, involving penalties amounting to nearly Rs 4,500 crore".
The participants in the strike will involve a large section of the transport sector in Maharashtra, including drivers operating school buses, private buses, commercial vehicles, including trucks, tempos, taxis, tankers, employee transport buses, tourist cabs, and app-based cabs.
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