Borewell vehicle owners strike work

Bengaluru | Saturday | 15th September, 2018

Summary:

Members of the Karnataka Borewell Vehicles Owners Association are staging a protest by parking over 250 trucks on a ground near Kommaghatta Road in Kengeri. Anil Kumar, a director in the Association, said, “Owners of borewell drilling trucks are incurring huge losses due to repeated increase in the price of diesel. Prior to starting any construction work in the city, borewells are dug. more-inProtesting against the increase in fuel prices, owners of borewell vehicles have struck work in the city since Tuesday, and are contemplating increasing the rate for drilling in the coming days. We have stopped drilling borewells in the city since Tuesday..