Chennai: Cops ready to handle transport strike

Chennai: In view of the transport strike announced by the trade unions in Tamil Nadu on Monday, the state police has mobilised thousands of police personnel across the state to handle any untoward incident. The city police has decided to deploy enough cops at bus terminals/ depots and workshops of MTC.

In a meeting conducted by the Chennai police commissioner Karan Singha on Saturday evening with officials of transport and revenue departments it was decided to deploy additional police strength at CMBT as wells and Pallavan house. The meeting also decided to keep ambulances ready near MTC depot and workshops. It was also decided to intensify patrolling on roads. It was decided to exchange information between law and order control room and traffic control room in coordinated way to enable to speed up decision making process, said a press release from the Chennai police.

All bus terminals and workshops will have the presence of revenue and transport department officials. Recovery vehicles will be kept ready strategically at various junctions, the press release added. In Chennai there will more than 15,000 police personnel at work all over the state the number will be more than 90,000.   

App-based services on demand

The transport union's decision had hit the transportation very hard that the unprepared general public were left to use the private modes of transportation.

The demand for the app-based transportation reached a peak on Sunday evening, as no low cost cabs were easily available. Anupriya Murugesan, a
commuter said, “I could not get Ola or Uber cabs to travel to Chennai Central. I had to pay '250 extra to commute in a private cab.”