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Telangana
remains shut for second day
Wednesday July 06, 2011 12:17:15 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: Life
remained paralysed across Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh
Wednesday, the second day of the 48-hour shutdown called by
Telangana Joint Action Committee (JAC) to demand a separate state
of Telangana.
Public transport remained crippled in Hyderabad and nine other
districts of the region as over 10,000 buses of Andhra Pradesh
State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) continued to remain off
the roads.
Shops, business establishments, hotels, petrol bunks and
educational institutions were shut on the second consecutive day.
Commuters in Hyderabad, especially those arriving at railway
stations had a harrowing time as APSRTC city services remained
suspended while a few autorickshaws and cabs charged exorbitant
fares.
The local train or Multi-Modal Transport System Services were also
cancelled for the second day.
With APSRTC employees too joining the strike, not a single bus can
come out of bus depots.
The shutdown forced APSRTC to suspend all services between
Hyderabad and other cities like Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Kurnool
and Tirupati. The corporation, which suffered a loss of Rs.9 crore
on the first day, plans to resume services in the evening.
The coal production in Singareni Collieries Company Limited was
affected for the second day as a majority of nearly 100,000
employees in the mines, spread over four Telangana districts,
refused to work. The company is likely to suffer loss of another
Rs.20 crore on the second day.
The usually busy roads in Nampallay, Basheerbagh, Khairatabad,
Himayatnagar, Koti, Mehdipatnam, Secunderabad and other areas in
the state capital here wore a deserted look.
The shutdown badly affected the work in government offices as a
majority of about 300,000 employees in the region stayed away from
work.
However, the functioning of IT companies in Hyderabad is normal as
the companies made alternate arrangements for the employees to
reach their work place. The cabs carrying the techies left early
in the day, avoiding routes where trouble is feared.
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