Strike cripples city transport, industries
22 Feb 2013 11:48 PM GMT
The final day of a two-day all-India industrial strike crippled industrial and financial sectors here and hit hard public transport on Thursday, inconveniencing tens of thousands. Banks and insurance companies were crippled across the city. And 29 industrial areas with over one lakh small and big factories were shut for a second straight day, union leaders said.
These included units across Patparganj, Pandav Nagar, Okhla, Bawana, Jhilmil, Mayapuri, Wazirpur, Naraina, Nazafgarh, GT Karnal Road, Kirti Nagar, Narela, Mangolpuri and Udyog Vihar. ‘All factories are shut,’ Patparganj industrial area president Sanjay Rastogi said.
Members of the country’s leading trade unions that called the two-day shutdown to protest the government’s economic policies held noisy protests in various areas.
With thousands of autorickshaws going off the roads, commuters had a tough time. But Delhi Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami claimed this was not true. ‘Commuters did not face any difficulty,’ he said, adding that the Delhi Transport Corporation plied 5,117 buses and that the Delhi government had put into service more buses at railway stations and bus terminals.
These included units across Patparganj, Pandav Nagar, Okhla, Bawana, Jhilmil, Mayapuri, Wazirpur, Naraina, Nazafgarh, GT Karnal Road, Kirti Nagar, Narela, Mangolpuri and Udyog Vihar. ‘All factories are shut,’ Patparganj industrial area president Sanjay Rastogi said.
Members of the country’s leading trade unions that called the two-day shutdown to protest the government’s economic policies held noisy protests in various areas.
With thousands of autorickshaws going off the roads, commuters had a tough time. But Delhi Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami claimed this was not true. ‘Commuters did not face any difficulty,’ he said, adding that the Delhi Transport Corporation plied 5,117 buses and that the Delhi government had put into service more buses at railway stations and bus terminals.
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