Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 25: All Jammu Province Passengers Transport Welfare Association has decided to go on indefinite strike from January 28 and held that no passenger vehicle will ply on road from Lakhanpur to Srinagar.
The decision to this effect was taken in a meeting of the Association held here under the chairmanship of Bharat Bhushan Gupta, vice chairman of the association. Representatives of all modes of transport including buses, mini buses, taxis and autorickshaws, participated in the meeting.
The speakers in the meeting expressed the view that Transport Minister had convened an emergent meeting with the association on December 31, 2013 in which he had assured revision in passenger fare and that the same would be announced after the cabinet meeting, but nothing has transpired after that thereby forcing the passenger transport association to again resort to path of agitation.
The speakers said while the prices of diesel is increasing twice a month and the price has been increased by Rs 8.50 per litre during the past one year and things have been made more complicated with the hike in third party insurance of the vehicles as a result of which transport operators were finding it hard to ply their vehicles on roads.
The association members said they approached the Government a number of times and also proposed a hike of 40% in passenger fare to the authorities concerned so that passenger transport services could be plied smoothly but since nothing has come out till date, they were constrained to issue a call for indefinite strike with effect from January 28, 2014.
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