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Lorries remained disconnected the roadworthy successful the delta districts connected Monday pursuing the onslaught telephone fixed by the State Lorry Owners Federation-Tamil Nadu (SLOFT).
Inquiries uncover that the federation called for the strike, to statesman with successful delta districts connected Monday, arsenic its plea to the State authorities to hole an affordable fittingness certificate renewal charges, which was accrued by the Union Government past year, failed to evoke a favourable response.
As the question of lorries successful Tiruvarur and Thanjavur districts had travel to a grinding halt, wherein astir two-thirds of the full fig of astir 10,000 lorries deployed for the proscription of paddy from the nonstop acquisition centres to the assorted godowns successful delta districts were registered successful Tiruvarur and Thanjavur districts, the interaction of the onslaught connected question of paddy successful Tiruvarur and Thanjavur districts could beryllium felt successful the days to come, sources said.
The lorry owners, who person leased retired their vehicles for proscription of paddy to the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation paddy transport contractors, said they were not earning immoderate nett by letting retired their vehicles to the TNCSC contractors.
The prosecute charges offered by the middlemen, connected astir occasions, were capable to conscionable lone the operational costs. Such being the case, the steep hike successful FC charges came arsenic a bolt from the blue, sources added.
Owners’ demand
Lorry owners successful Nagapattinam, Mayiladuthurai, and parts of Cuddalore districts went connected onslaught connected Monday demanding a simplification successful the steep hike successful fees for renewal of conveyance fittingness certificates (FC), raising concerns implicit imaginable accumulation of paddy bags during the ongoing samba harvest season.
Lorry owners, too opposing the summation successful charges, objected to the mandatory installation of GPS devices, saying the outgo was prohibitively high, and urged the authorities to rotation backmost the order.
Nagapattinam Paddy Lorry Owners’ Association president Pandian and erstwhile president Dakshinamoorthy said operators were moving astatine a nonaccomplishment and the interest summation had worsened their fiscal burden. They warned that the agitation would proceed if talks with the authorities failed to output a solution. They said thousands of vehicles were disconnected the roadworthy arsenic operators were incapable to spend the revised fees, severely affecting those successful the delta region.
With samba harvest nether mode successful Thanjavur, Nagapattinam and different delta districts, paddy procured astatine acquisition centres is awaiting transportation. Farmers expressed interest that immoderate hold could pb to stockpiling and raising the hazard of rainfall damage.
