Summary:
Even the transport of essential commodities such as vegetables, fruits, fuel and milk remained unaffected on Saturday. “But if the strike continues, vegetables from other states will not reach and prices of fruits and vegetables will increase,” said Tekchand Chormare, one of the wholesale vegetable vendors from Phule market. NTU office-bearers staged chakka jam agitation at all toll plazas.TOI visited highways and found trucks stationed in parking lots around the city. “It is unlikely to affect the city as most of the farmers have their own transport facilities,” he said.Traders in the wholesale APMC market at Kalamna too said that supplies are unaffected. Commodities worth around Rs100 crore are stranded in different cities and towns of Vidarbha,” he said, adding, “We also prevented loading and unloading of consignments.”The strike also rendered around 1,000 workers engaged in loading and unloading goods in the city jobless..