Government and private educational institutes remained shut
News pulse, Politics | admin | September 19, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Though the state government had brought a dozen departments under the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) ahead of the imminent strike, it, however, failed to invoke the provisions of the Act even as the employees of these departments are on strike for the past one week. This indecision is attributed to the fear of political backlash from its own party among other quarters.
According to reports, a truck carrying electronic goods was attacked and looted by locals when the driver tried to take a detour to avoid the road blockade on the Hyderabad-Bangalore national highway near Jurala in the neighbour-ing Mahaboobnagar district. Agitators erected walls and other blockades on Hyderabad-Vijayawada and Hyderabad-Mumbai highways. Apart from staying put on the roads , they also stopped traffic coming from Andhra districts as part of the road blockade programme launched on Monday.
The otherwise busy highways remained traffic-free for the whole day. Efforts to clear blockades by the police proved futile.
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