Strike: Banking, transport may be hit

Services like banking and public transport in the State may be hit on Friday with central trade unions giving a nationwide strike call to protest government’s “indifference” to their demands for better wages and facilities.

the goan I networkPublished Sep 2, 2016, 5:00 AM IST

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PANAJI

The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) along with unions from factories, industries as well public and private institutions will take part in the bandh that will culminate in a meeting at Azad Maidan, Panaji.

Several trade unions including Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh, Goa Municipal Employees Union, All

India Bank Employees Association, Goa Rajya Karmachari Mahasangh, KTC Drivers & Allied Employees Association and Goa Government

Employees’ Association have decided to participate in the strike.

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C-Trains: Answer to Panaji’s traffic woes?

It’s over ten years since the Corporation of the City of Panaji first unveiled its plan for a mass transit solution to the transport and traffic woes. A lot of water has flowed under the Mandovi bridges since then, but the transit system, which was to comprise smart-looking buses, is a plan that has remained on paper.

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Published Sep 2, 2016, 4:57 AM IST

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PANAJIEnter Ashwani Kumar, an Indian Railways engineer and Emil Jacob, owner of Jacob Innovations LLC, and Panaji could have a more workable solution to its problems. Ashwani and Jacob worked on a caterpillar train system which won them the Climate CoLab competition organised by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston for 2016. The 1997-batch officer of the Indian Railway Traffic Service, will now present this idea to academicians and town…

Strike: Banking, transport may be hit

C-Trains: Answer to Panaji’s traffic woes?

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