The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Automen welcome move to hold talks

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

Automen welcome move to hold talks

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Striking automen on Sunday welcomed the Government's decision to hold talks with auto unions over mandatory installation of digital meters in autorickshaws.

B. Venkatesam, general secretary, Anti-Auto Digital Meters Struggle Committee, said full cooperation would be extended in checking the tampering of mechanical meters in autorickshaws.

"We will seek postponement of the G.O. 213 making digital meters mandatory for at least one year and also subsidy for purchasing digital meters," he said.

Earlier in the day, traffic came to a stand still for a couple of hours on the busy Vijayawada National Highway at L. B. Nagar crossroads when the committee members organised a rasta roko in protest against the installation of digital meters.

The police resorted to mild lathi charge to disperse them.

`No public support'

Meanwhile, Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) A. K. Khan insisted on installation of digital meters and said the ongoing strike lacked public support.

Speaking to The Hindu , Mr.Khan said commuters were at their wits end with autorickshaw drivers brazenly tampering mechanical auto meters. "This is unfair and amounts to cheating the general public."

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