Indian CPI Secretary calls on PM to help end lorry strike
In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, the CPI leader said the truck owners’ strike across the country for the last five days had caused serious problems in the transport of essential commodities. Besides, vegetables, flowers and other farm produce could also perish, causing huge financial losses to the farming community who raised the crop.
He explained that agricultural markets were also closed across the country due to the lorry and truck owners’ strike. An abnormal increase of the insurance premium charges on trucks and other transport vehicles and huge increases of licence fee and penalties on all vehicles, including taxis and auto-rickshaws, had also caused heartburn among the sections concerned and led to the strike.
source: thehindu.com
