All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) call off their proposed strike from 20th January 2007 on the arbitrary hike in Premium of Third Party Insurance Cover, on the assurance of the Government to reduce the hike.

A delegation of All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) led by Shri Gurinder Pal Singh, President-AIMTC consisting of Shri G R Shanmugappa, Vice President (SZ) and Managing Committee members Shri Gurmeet Singh, Shri Harish Sabharwal, Shri Satpal Nanda, Shri Gopal Naidu, Shri Deepak Sachdeva, Shri R Sugumar, and Shri Charan Singh Lohara had a series of meetings with                     Shri Vinod Rai, I.A.S, Secretary-Ministry of Finance and other officials on this matter. The Secretary gave a patient hearing to the problems of transporters and appealed to the transporters to call off their proposed countrywide strike from 20^th January 2007.

On 18^th January 2006, after a day long deliberations with the Government was agreed to consider on request to reduce the Third Party Premium hike by 80% from 150% as announced earlier. This is a positive step and we welcome the Government initiatives on resolving the problems of the transporters and the hardship of the common man, we call off the proposed strike of transporters from 20^th January 2007 as our demands were met by the Government.

(Gurinder Pal Singh)

President

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