Impact of Transport Strike & reasoning - Time to Let the Society Survive & Save our Nation
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Tags: india motor transport business support services:truckers strike paralyze our economy:inflations Trucker Strike
Tags: india motor transport business support services:truckers strike paralyze our economy:inflations Trucker Strike
My dear friends,
As Already Our People suffers more and more from Hartals and Strikes, be it a general strike by the aggrieved employees, public, political bodies, or on some social causes to bring it to the Government’s notice or against the Government’s biased anti-people’s policies.
Still why we need some more strikes by Transporters too...
Let us focus our attentions to the ongoing strike by Truckers by All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC, which represents nearly 4.8 million truck and two million tempo operators) & Akhil Gujarat Truck Transport Association (GTTA, According to GTTA, there are over 2.15-lakh trucks, 23,247 tankers and more than 1.23 lakh light and medium size commercial vehicles registered in Gujarat)
(Gratifying aspect is only that transporters maintained supply of essentials like fuel)
Their main demands are mainly on demanding roll-back of hike in toll tax, honouring of service tax agreement of 2004, removal of speed governors on highways and rationalisation of duty on diesel.
Already Transport industry is affected badly by inaccessible roads, increasing automotive parts during periodical maintenance, steep rise in tyre prices, adulterated fuel, and what not?
The AMIT and GTTA have been demanding clarity on service tax charged on supply of vegetables, transparency in diesel prices and lowering of toll tax, apart from taxes under business auxiliary services category.
According to Service Tax Agreement under which goods transport agencies (GTAs) would have to pay service tax only on 25 per cent of the billing amount, the government could not impose service tax on GTAs for providing services like cargo handling, packaging, courier and business support services.
But The Service Tax department has issued show-cause notices to a large number of GTAs, asking them to pay additional service tax for providing these services.
Agitating Motor union already met transport ministry officials twice as well as discussing with Finance Ministry without any further progress.
As Over 75 per cent of the total cargo in the country is transported by road. This includes commodities like cement, fertilizers, food grain and steel, general cargo like FMCG products, leather goods and high-value cargo like refrigerators, electronics and other white goods etc.,
Any interruption in the supply of these commodities may result in a loss of over Rs 1,500 crore to the economy every day.
We have already witnessed those loses during the previous strike in august 2004.
The impact of this transport strike will cripple the trade & industry, movements of goods from manufacturing centers to consumers end delays for the time being, industrial productions may slowed down till strike ends, exporters cannot fulfill their contracts in time, essential commodities will be in shortage till existing stocks cleared, perishable agro & horticultural produce will get damaged, tea stocks can’t be moved to auction centers, crores of rupees transactions comes to standstill, loss of indirect & direct taxes to the government exchequers, resulting in exorbitant increase in prices & thereby fuel further inflations, Exporters of garments & fabrics will face lot of problems, Poultry farms will face difficulties to lift their egg stocks and broiler chickens (estimated weekly volume of 40 to 50 lakh eggs reaches the Kochi port via road transport for export to the West Asian markets.,) Consumers and general public brace the impact & sufferings…
As Already Our People suffers more and more from Hartals and Strikes, be it a general strike by the aggrieved employees, public, political bodies, or on some social causes to bring it to the Government’s notice or against the Government’s biased anti-people’s policies.
Still why we need some more strikes by Transporters too...
Let us focus our attentions to the ongoing strike by Truckers by All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC, which represents nearly 4.8 million truck and two million tempo operators) & Akhil Gujarat Truck Transport Association (GTTA, According to GTTA, there are over 2.15-lakh trucks, 23,247 tankers and more than 1.23 lakh light and medium size commercial vehicles registered in Gujarat)
(Gratifying aspect is only that transporters maintained supply of essentials like fuel)
Their main demands are mainly on demanding roll-back of hike in toll tax, honouring of service tax agreement of 2004, removal of speed governors on highways and rationalisation of duty on diesel.
Already Transport industry is affected badly by inaccessible roads, increasing automotive parts during periodical maintenance, steep rise in tyre prices, adulterated fuel, and what not?
The AMIT and GTTA have been demanding clarity on service tax charged on supply of vegetables, transparency in diesel prices and lowering of toll tax, apart from taxes under business auxiliary services category.
According to Service Tax Agreement under which goods transport agencies (GTAs) would have to pay service tax only on 25 per cent of the billing amount, the government could not impose service tax on GTAs for providing services like cargo handling, packaging, courier and business support services.
But The Service Tax department has issued show-cause notices to a large number of GTAs, asking them to pay additional service tax for providing these services.
Agitating Motor union already met transport ministry officials twice as well as discussing with Finance Ministry without any further progress.
As Over 75 per cent of the total cargo in the country is transported by road. This includes commodities like cement, fertilizers, food grain and steel, general cargo like FMCG products, leather goods and high-value cargo like refrigerators, electronics and other white goods etc.,
Any interruption in the supply of these commodities may result in a loss of over Rs 1,500 crore to the economy every day.
We have already witnessed those loses during the previous strike in august 2004.
The impact of this transport strike will cripple the trade & industry, movements of goods from manufacturing centers to consumers end delays for the time being, industrial productions may slowed down till strike ends, exporters cannot fulfill their contracts in time, essential commodities will be in shortage till existing stocks cleared, perishable agro & horticultural produce will get damaged, tea stocks can’t be moved to auction centers, crores of rupees transactions comes to standstill, loss of indirect & direct taxes to the government exchequers, resulting in exorbitant increase in prices & thereby fuel further inflations, Exporters of garments & fabrics will face lot of problems, Poultry farms will face difficulties to lift their egg stocks and broiler chickens (estimated weekly volume of 40 to 50 lakh eggs reaches the Kochi port via road transport for export to the West Asian markets.,) Consumers and general public brace the impact & sufferings…
Hence our requests to both the Transporters to end the strike for the welfare of Nation & request our Government of India to save the nation further from inflations & do consider the genuine demands & redress them at war footing.
Enough of all these day to day sufferings & let it not increase the burden of common citizen any more.
We already have enough problems to solve & let this transport strike add something more.
Jai Hind
Subbu
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Enough of all these day to day sufferings & let it not increase the burden of common citizen any more.
We already have enough problems to solve & let this transport strike add something more.
Jai Hind
Subbu
*
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