TEAM HERALD
bureau@herald-goa.com
BELGAUM: Various transport organisations from Belgaum, Kolhapur and Sindhudurg regions are all set to stop their operations and to block other transport vehicles at eight points of entry to Goa from Sunday midnight, to protest against Goa’s entry tax on outstation vehicles.
While transporters from Belgaum district will camp at Jamboti, Ramnagar, Peeranwadi Cross, Turmuri and Chorla Road, transporters from Kolhapur district will block vehicles at Radhanagari and Ajara. Transport organisations from Sindhudurg district will block transport vehicles and private buses to Goa at Banda.
Supporting the decision of the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) regarding a complete blockade to Goa from the midnight of May 12, transporters and taxi owners in Belgaum arrived at a unanimous decision to stop transportation of goods, vegetables and milk to Goa.
Meetings are being held at different places to ascertain the modus operandi of the proposed ‘Chakka Jam’ agitation by transporters. Various organisations like Wholesale Vegetable Suppliers Association, Fruit Owners Association, Milk Producers Association and Onion Merchants Association have expressed their solidarity to the agitation by the transporters.
Stating that the proposed ‘Chakka Jam’ is against the Goa government’s decision to impose the entry tax, transport organisations have stated that people of Goa would also indirectly suffer from the entry tax.
