Maharashtra transport minister Anil Parab on Wednesday appealed employees of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) to call off their strike which entered the 14th day, even as the corporation suspended another 500 employees and also filed a contempt petition in the High Court.
Bus operations at all 250 depots of the MSRTC remained shut due to the strike, officials said. RTO authorities arranged over 2,100 private vehicles for the convenience of passengers, they added.
Parab, who is also the chairman of the MSRTC, made the appeal to end the stir during a meeting with a delegation of the Maharashtra ST Employees Joint Action Committe at the state government's Sahyadri Guest House here, said an official release.
Three more Zika virus cases were reported in Kanpur today and 17 people recovered and tested negative. Active Zika cases in Kanpur now standat 91.
On the Transport Day at the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) climate summit, India on Wednesday highlighted the need to transition the country's large fleet of two- and three-wheelers, which together comprise over 80 per cent of the automobiles in the country, to zero-emission vehicles, according to an official statement.
The COP, or Conference of Parties summit, began in the Scottish city of Glasgow on October 31 and will go on till November 12.
India, represented by the Niti Aayog, participated in the fourth ministerial dialogue of the Zero-Emission Vehicle Transition Council (ZEVTC), a global forum on enhancing political cooperation on the transition to zero-emission vehicles. (PTI)