The choice got here after a gathering of truckers with state transport minister Pratap Sarnaik and IS Chahal, extra principal secretary to the chief minister, at Mantralaya earlier within the day.
The strike started on Wednesday in protest in opposition to the e-challan system for visitors violations. Whereas bus operators supported the strike, they didn't participate following an enchantment by CM Devendra Fadnavis.
After the assembly, the Vahatukdar Bachao Kruti Sanghatana, an motion committee of transporters helming the strike, determined to provide the state authorities time until July 30, stated Pune-based transport chief Baba Shinde.
“The state authorities has assured police is not going to problem e-challans until the top of this month for minor violations like parking or stopping at gas pumps and so forth. The state authorities has additionally assured it will elevate the difficulty of obligatory requirement of cleaner or assistant for heavy automobiles with the Union authorities,” Shinde stated.
Regardless of problems with manpower scarcity, truckers are being fined for not having cleaners, he added.”The cancellation of wrongly issued e-challans was certainly one of our main calls for. The Maharashtra authorities has agreed to problem a notification relating to this. The federal government additionally assured it will contemplate our demand to cancel challans which can be greater than 90 days outdated,” Shinde knowledgeable.Transport affiliation functionaries stated the federal government has agreed to broaden the committee headed by the Maharashtra Transport Commissioner to incorporate extra members from truckers' teams.
Leaders of transport associations claimed the strike obtained a combined response during the last three days, including that numerous vehicles and items automobiles in Navi Mumbai, Mumbai, Thane, Pune and so forth went off the roads throughout this era.
