No Ola, Uber, inDrive, Rapido services today? Will Bharat Bandh affect app-based cab services? All you need to know
New Delhi: More than 25 crore workers, including those employed in public services sectors like banking, insurance, postal, and construction, are on a nationwide strike today. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha and joint front of the agricultural workers unions have extended support to this strike action and decided to make massive mobilsations in rural India, the union leaders said. Owing to the strike, Public buses, taxis, and app-based cab services (Ola, Uber, Rapido, inDrive) could be affected as trade unions and allied groups hold protest marches and road demonstrations in several cities.
“The Bharat bandh will be disrupting services across the country. Banking, postal, coal mining, factories, state transport services will be affected due to the strike,” Harbhajan Singh Sidhu from Hind Mazdoor Sabha was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
Trade Unions Supporting the Strike
- Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC)
- All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
- Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS)
- Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU)
- All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC)
- Trade Union Coordination Centre (TUCC)
- Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
- All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU)
- Labour Progressive Federation (LPF)
- United Trade Union Congress (UTUC)
Sectors Likely to Be Affected
- Banking and financial services
- Postal services
- Coal mining and industrial units
- State-run transport services
- Public sector undertakings (PSUs)
Accoring to the reports, NH-83 in Jehanabad and railway track have been blocked by RJD supporters. The RJD, Congress, and other Mahagathbandhan opposition parties have called for a bandh to oppose the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in the state.
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