Auto-rickshaw drivers under the banner of the All Odisha Auto Chalak Mahasangha would go on a State-wide 12-hour strike on May 5 protesting against the online auto service.
“We will hold strike on May 5, from 6 am to 6 pm. Our demands also include provision of social security to auto-rickshaw drivers, a special auto transport policy by the State Government, a standard rate chart for all players in the field and solution to the auto parking problem,” informed Mahasangha general secretary Padman Kumar Samal at a Press meet here.
Mahasangha working president Naba Kishore Mohanty said entry of various foreign companies in
the auto transport service would render lakhs of youths jobless in the State. “The companies’ move has badly affected auto drivers’ income due to a lack of fixed price chart by the Government,”
he added.
Mahasangha president Subash Singh and vice-president Durga Charan Khuntia were present