How many hartals in kerala

Hotels also have a busy day. I work as a bank collection agent as well and move around quite a lot in the region. Sunny Varghese also says the same.

Two things that you get without fail during hartals are milk and newspaper. Dip your newspaper in the milk and relish the yummy snack. It will keep you going for the next 12 hours. It struck a chord with people, going by the number of reactions. In my opinion, though hartal is a means of protest, resorting to it frequently is extremely troublesome, especially for the common man.

Watch Kerala is fed up with hartals. Facebook Twitter Linkedin EMail. Start a Conversation. However, effective intervention of the High Court and the state government to curb the menace has yielded excellent results.

In fact, the number of hartals observed in Kerala has come down drastically from in to a mere 12 in so far. Of the 12 hartals of , two were nationwide strikes that had turned into hartals. A proof of the changed scenario is that one month — April — alone in had witnessed 12 hartals. Another statistic reflecting the changed situation is that in only five statewide hartals took place in the state compared to 98 in This year, there were long gaps between shutdowns.

For instance, after a regional hartal at Chithara in Kollam on March 3 this year, the next similar protest was called six months later in the state. It is estimated that Kerala suffers a loss of Rs 2, crore a day when all trade, industrial and service activities in the private as well as public sectors come to a standstill. In a historic judgment, the Kerala High Court had in January ordered that a call for hartal should be given at least seven days in advance.

The court also said that the people issuing the call would be held responsible for any violence or destruction taking place during the protest. In too, Kerala had witnessed at least 98 strikes. The number of hartals that were held in , we know that no party has consistently campaigned against those issues other than just holding a hartal.

Educational institutions are also one of the victims of regular hartals. According to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Kerala lost around 2. The loss was 1.