EFT Bureau, New Delhi: A two-day nationwide strike called by 11 major trade unions, starting Feb. 20, crippled normal life across India. The unions demand concrete measures for containing inflation, ensuring jobs and enforcement of labor laws.
Most business establishments, government offices, educational institutions, markets, shops, banks and financial institutions were shut, particularly in the eastern Indian states of West Bengal and Bihar, the southern states of Karnataka and Kerala, the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, and the western state of Maharashtra, apart from large parts of the national capital, according to local TV channels. Public transport stayed off roads in almost all cities, including Delhi and Mumbai. Roads were deserted and rail services were also affected.
The air services have not been hit and the flights are more or less on time, an aviation official said. State-run trains in Mumbai and metro rail services in Delhi were not affected as security forces kept a strict vigil on the two very crucial modes of transport in the two cities, the TV channels reported.
At least one person was reportedly killed in clashes which broke out between two rival workers' unions in the northern Indian state of Punjab's Amritsar town while a group of protesters vandalized a state-run bus as it started plying on the roads, defying the strike, even as there were reports of sporadic incidents sparking tensions in other parts of the country.
Eleven major trade unions, including CITU, backed by the state's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), BMS (Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh), the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and the Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), have called the strike to oppose the "anti-labour" policies of the union government.
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The air services have not been hit and the flights are more or less on time, an aviation official said. State-run trains in Mumbai and metro rail services in Delhi were not affected as security forces kept a strict vigil on the two very crucial modes of transport in the two cities, the TV channels reported.
At least one person was reportedly killed in clashes which broke out between two rival workers' unions in the northern Indian state of Punjab's Amritsar town while a group of protesters vandalized a state-run bus as it started plying on the roads, defying the strike, even as there were reports of sporadic incidents sparking tensions in other parts of the country.
Eleven major trade unions, including CITU, backed by the state's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), BMS (Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh), the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and the Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS), have called the strike to oppose the "anti-labour" policies of the union government.
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