TN gives traders respite amid truckers' strike

Chennai | Saturday | 21st July, 2018

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If so, the prices of vegetables might increase at Koyembedu wholesale market, say dealers. CHENNAI: In order to ensure uninterrupted supply of agricultural commodities in the context of the ongoing strike called by the All India Motor Transport Congress AIMTC ), the Tamil Nadu government has announced that all these products can be transported free of cost through government buses.A circular was sent to all the managing directors of state transport corporation on Saturday instructing them not to collect any fare for the said category of goods until the truckers' strike comes to an end.At present, over 4.5 lakh trucks are off road in the state expressing solidarity to the nation-wide protest against hike in fuel prices, toll charges and third party vehicle insurance premium.Though the supply of essential commodities has not been hit Chennai so far, it is feared that the supply might get interrupted if the strike continued for the next 48 hours..