Ambuja Cement disrupted by trucker strike

Cement and clinker truckers carried through their Monday strike in Himachal Pradesh over various demands, including a revision of the Goods and Service Tax rates and an end to daily revision of diesel prices, reports The Tribune.

"We are observing the day-long strike on the call for a nationwide strike," said truckers’ association spokesperson Ram Kishan Sharma.

More than1200 truckers were on strike, refusing to lift for transportation cement and clinker of Ambuja Cement from its two units at Darlaghat in Solan district. An official of Ambuja Cement said the strike had affected normal production at the two units.

The production of Jaypee Himachal Cement, a subsidiary of diversified group Jaiprakash Associates, located in Solan district, was also didrupted by the action.