SRINAGAR: Kashmir Transporters Welfare Association, an amalgam of various transporters associations, on Wednesday deferred its strike scheduled today after midnight negotiations with the government.
“There were two rounds of meeting with officers at Jammu during the day on Tuesday and both ended without any headway. However late last night we were called for a meeting which started at midnight and lasted till around 3 a.m.,” news agency GNS quoted General Secretary of the Association Sheikh Mohammad Yousuf saying.
He said that the meeting was held under the chairmanship of Divisional Commissioner Jammu and was attended among others by Transport Commissioner J&K, Deputy Commissioner Jammu and SSP Jammu.
“They accepted most of our demands in principle following which we decided to defer the strike,” he said, adding, “we have been assured that a committee will be constituted with regard to our demands regarding age of the vehicles while other four demands were agreed on the spot.”
Among others, the association demands a rollback of the order dated February 7 by virtue of which age limit has been prescribed for the commercial vehicles. The transporters have demanded 25 years age for the commercial vehicle be retained.
With regard to the installation of vehicle tracking devices in passenger vehicles, Yousuf said that the government has agreed that the device “can be procured from open market and not from a few dealers designated by the transport department earlier”.
He said that the government also accepted the demand of not allowing SRTC to run its fleet “in a manner which was against directions by High Court and other laws”.
The government, he said, also agreed that there would be a driving license test for auto rickshaws and that passenger tax arrears would be paid in installments.
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