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“We have already provided list of around 15 anti-social elements for instigating bus employees for the strike to the city police,” he said. NAGPUR: The indefinite strike by the employees of bus operators of Nagpur Municipal Corporation affected normal bus services in the city on Tuesday as many mini bus stands wore a deserted look.The striking bus operators want the government to implement minimum wages, setting up of inquiry committees in all bus operators and conductors’ agencies, to induct all employees of ousted city bus operator Vansh Nimay Infraprojects. To a query, Mudgal said all the four-bus operators and two ticketing agencies are paying wages as per minimum wages act. The app based cabs, however, too was in great demand.Municipal commissioner Ashwin Mudgal said that the civic body has already approached the Maharashtra government for invoking Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against the striking employees. Convener Bandu Talwekar described the strike as the strongest warning to the NMC against non-implementation of minimum wages.In the absence of city buses, private vehicles including autorickshaws plying in the city reportedly fleeced passengers by charging extra fare..