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Supplies of fruits and vegetables still affected
A day after the truckers called off their eight-day agitation, movement of commodities resumed on major highways yesterday, even as supplies of fruits and vegetables continued to take a hit in some areas.
- IANS
- Published: 23:42 January 13, 2009
New Delhi: A day after the truckers called off their eight-day agitation, movement of commodities resumed on major highways yesterday, even as supplies of fruits and vegetables continued to take a hit in some areas.
Transport companies said they expected normalcy to return by today.
"Fruits and vegetables are reaching the mandis [wholesale markets] in places like Delhi. But shortages continue. We expect the normal supplies to resume in a day or two," said Vivek Rastogi of the Agriculture Production Marketing Committee here.
"After eight days of strike, one cannot expect normally to return overnight. We expect the situation to be much better from Wednesday," an official in the surface transport ministry said.
The official said additional manpower had been deployed across the country to man the toll gates as large number of trucks, that were off the roads during the strike, had started to hit the highways.
According to Kapil Sawhney, the proprietor of Sawhney Transporters, most truckers were busy clearing the backlog. "It will take a couple of days more to clear the backlog. But we have started taking new bookings," Sawhney said.
Some six million trucks were off the road during the trucker's strike called by the All India Motor Transport Congress. The Federation of Indian Export Organisations estimated that the economy was losing Rs.10 billion (Rs.1,000 crore) daily due to the strike.
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