SWABI: Transporters want old oil price system revived
By Our Correspondent
SWABI, March 19: Provincial president of All Goods Transport Federation Liaqat Khan said on Saturday that if their demands were not met till March 24, they would give a call for wheel-jam strike across the province. He told Dawn that they had already held a detailed meeting with district office-bearers about the prevailing situation surfaced after the consecutive increase in the petroleum products, which resulted in increasing their expenditures manifold. “We agreed on final action and there is just need to give a call,” he said.
About the demands, he said, the previous method budget-to-budget- increase in the price of petroleum products should be restored and increase and decrease power after each 15-day should be taken back
from petroleum regularity authority.
When the prices of the petroleum products increased the transporters would have no option but to push upward the fares but if the government on was increasing the petroleum prices but contained transporters on the other, it would be difficult to manage.
The other demands, he said, included the removing of toll tax plaza on highways and the corruption of the police who never allowed the goods transporters to run their business on smooth bassis.
He said the transporters had been calling to remove token tax, income tax and other taxes and the toll tax plazas become burden over the goods transporters.
