The nationwide five-day-old strike of transporter was called off on Monday after a marathon meeting between agitating apex truckers body All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) and Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, with the Government promising to look into their demands.
A committee headed by Transport Secretary Vijay Chhibber has been formed, in which truckers will also have representatives, to look into their demands and a report will be submitted by December 15.
"A committee has been formed headed by the Transport Secretary, which will have representatives of the transporters. All the demands that they have placed and the obstacles they are facing will be studied by the committee which will submit its report by December 15," Gadkari said.
Emerging after a three hour-long meeting, he said: "We will look into their demands and we will consider what we can fulfill. I appealed to them to call off their strike and they have agreed to that."
Confirming the development, AIMTC president Bhim Wadhwa said transporters have decided to end their stir.
They had gone on strike demanding scrapping of the present toll collection system, which AIMTC says is a tool of harassment for truckers, besides seeking a one-time payment of taxes and simplification of the TDS procedure.