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| Transporters strike | | | | A highly serious situation has developed as a result of indefinite strike by private transporters of all modes in Jammu and Kashmir State. With all modes of transport coming to a grinding halt, the life stands paralyzed, causing untold miseries to the people at large. While commuters going to their offices or attending business engagements and even training at places at some distance from their houses, have either to sit back at their places or walk all the distance on foot. With the city expanding and distances increasing the requirement of transport has become a great necessity. All those not having any private vehicle with them are feeling it hard to commute. With goods carriers also observing the strike, the business community is suffering a heavy loss, besides grim prospects of people denied the essentials if the deadlock is not resolved soon. According to the reports as many as 2 lakh visitors to Jammu and Kashmir are stranded at one place or the other, the pilgrims to Vaishno Devi and holiday visitors to Kashmir are facing great hardships, getting stranded at various places. It is an irony of the situation that a large number of tourists on visit to Kashmir, from various parts of the country to avoid excessive heat and sultry weather at their respective places and enjoy the salubrious climate of Kashmir find themselves in a piquant situation, made to swelter in the sultry weather at bus stop, railway station and other places in Jammu. Although the hoteliers and lodge owners both in Jammu and Kashmir are having brisk business, with the stranded passengers checking in and their occupation to full capacity, yet they foresee a grim scenario for future with the tourists having undergone untold sufferings, not visiting the state in future and many prospective visitors having cancelled their bookings in the hotels and lodges. With the Amarnath yatra commencing only after six days, any continuance of transporters strike will have a highly adverse effect on the yatra and all the arrangements and calculations of the authorities as well as the private stake holders in the yatra will go haywire. The traders in Jammu city alone are suffering a loss of Rs 1 crore daily. This is besides the heavy lost being suffered by the transporters themselves, whose vehicles are lying idle. Both the government and the transporters should take the positive attitude and come forward to resolve the deadlock soon, through give and take. While the government should shun the complacency and the habit of inordinate delay in reaching at negotiated settlement with the aggrieved, the transporters too should not take a rigid stand and find a via media solution to resolve the deadlock. Any prolonging of the crisis will have long range adverse fallout on the trade and particularly on the tourism sector in this state. |
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