Truckers’ strike hits vegetable supplies in Madhya Pradesh

September 8th, 2009 BHOPAL - Normal functioning in most colleges and universities in Madhya Pradesh came to a standstill Tuesday as more teachers' bodies joined an ongoing strike by professors demanding a revised pay package. Professors in Madhya Pradesh had started an indefinite strike from Sep 5 on Teachers Day demanding a revised University Grants Commission (UGC) pay package.

September 4th, 2009 BHOPAL - Professors in Madhya Pradesh are marking Teachers Day in a different way this Saturday -- they have started an indefinite strike demanding higher pay. The joint front of government college teachers, Shasakiya Mahavidyalayin Shikshak Sanyukta Sangharsh Samiti, said the teachers went on an indefinite strike after the state government failed to keep its promise of implementing the revised pay scale from Sep 4.

August 18th, 2009 GWALIOR - The food and civil supplies department of the Madhya Pradesh Government has seized illegally stocked sugar from godowns across the state. Food and civil supplies officials backed by state police have raided sugar mills and godowns across Madhya Pradesh in the last three days.

June 30th, 2009 BHOPAL - Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka governor Rameshwar Thakur was sworn in here Tuesday as the 18th governor of Madhya Pradesh. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Leader of Opposition in assembly Jamuna Devi, state Congress Committee president Suresh Pachouri, Madhya Pradesh cabinet ministers and other dignitaries were present on the occasion at Raj Bhavan.

January 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Representatives of truckers associations are expected to meet the government here later Monday, the eighth day of their nationwide strike, after several states invoked the law against them and arrested some of their members. A senior government official confirmed that a group of leaders representing truckers are expected to meet either Surface Transport Minister T.R.

January 10th, 2009 BHOPAL - With the truckers strike entering the seventh day Sunday, Madhya Pradesh transporters said they will continue with their agitation until their demands are fulfilled by the government. The state government had Saturday threatened over 32,000 truckers of Madhya Pradesh to return to work immediately else the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) will be invoked.

January 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The nationwide strike by transporters continued for the seventh day Sunday despite several states using provisions of law to term it illegal even as Union Surface Transport Minister T.R. Baalu called a meeting with his state-level counterparts here Monday to find ways to end the impasse.

January 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Transport Minister T.R. Baalu Saturday urged leaders of truckers across the country to come for talks and to end their six-day-old strike that has hit the economy hard.

January 9th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The prices of essential commodities, particularly foodgrains, are rising in Uttar Pradesh due to the nationwide truckers strike called by the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), a trade body official said Saturday. The prices of pulses like lentil that are largely imported from Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have shot up in the wake of the strike, according to Lucknow Dal and Rice Miller Association.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi government will be enforcing the National Security Act to bring normalcy in fuel and food supplies, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said Friday after an urgent cabinet meeting to discuss the worsening situation in the national capital following a strike by oil company officers and truckers. Senior officers of Delhi Police and oil companies also attended the meeting.

January 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Truckers Thursday said their nationwide strike will continue, even as traders said the four-day-old agitation has hit supplies of essential commodities. Over six million trucks went off the roads across India in the early hours Monday, with transporters demanding that diesel and tyre prices be lowered.

January 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The ongoing nationwide strike of transporters has jacked up prices of essential commodities in Lucknow even as the Uttar Pradesh Truck Operators' Federation (UPTOF) said they would maintain the supply of essential goods. While the rates of fruits and vegetables have gone up 20-35 percent, the wholesale market is also witnessing price hike, vendors said.

January 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With no government response coming forth to their agitation, Indian truckers vowed to continue their three-day old nation wide strike even as prices of essential commodities started rising in several parts of the country. 'We vow to continue our nationwide strike till our demands are met,' Charan Singh Lohara, the president of the truckers' apex All India Motor Transport Congress, told IANS Wednesday.

January 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian truckers, whose nationwide strike entered the third day Wednesday, are hoping that the government will talk to them to end the impasse arising from their demands that includes a diesel price cut. A senior board member of All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), that called the strike, told IANS it is 'likely' that the government will call the transport body for talks.

January 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The nationwide indefinite strike called by truckers entered the second day Tuesday even as the government Monday threatened to invoke the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) if needed against the strikers. 'We will continue our nationwide strike until our demands are met,' said Charan Singh Lohara, the president of All-India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), the apex body of truckers.