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Lorry strike may hit vegetable supply
The supply of vegetables and other essential commodities such as milk from the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka is likely to be affected from March 30 as trucks carrying such goods will go off the road following a decision of the Telangana Lorry Owners Association to join the indefinite ‘lorry bandh’ by the South Indian Motor Transport Association (SIMTA).
Hyderabad: The supply of vegetables and other essential commodities such as milk from the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka is likely to be affected from March 30 as trucks carrying such goods will go off the road following a decision of the Telangana Lorry Owners Association to join the indefinite ‘lorry bandh’ by the South Indian Motor Transport Association (SIMTA).
SIMTA has representatives from Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry. The LPG suppliers are not part of the strike but they too would be extending their moral support to the demands of the association. The SIMTA has been demanding the Centre and the state governments to reduce the third party insurance prices, cut in challan and toll fees and other RTA fees.
They also want that the toll charges should not be collected at places where the investments have already been recovered. The Association also demanded the government to roll back the increase of VAT on diesel and to drop the proposal to scrap 15-year old vehicles.
The lorry owners are also opposing the government’s proposal to cancel the licence of the drivers who overload their vehicles. Instead, they want that the consumer who encourages overloading of the lorry should be made responsible and action should be taken against them.
In case of overloading of sand lorries, the government should take action against the contractor, said the lorry owners. Telangana lorry owners Association president N Bhaskar Reddy said the single-permit issue would be solved if the two Telugu state governments discuss the issue across the table.
