The country wide one day bandh called by the trade unions today to protest the alleged anti labor policies of the government has partially paralyzed normal life in some states including AP.

While baking, financial and insurance sectors were totally crippled across the country with the RBI closing down its clearing houses for the day, transport services were partially hit in most of the states including AP, West Bengal and Maharashtra.

While the strike had little impact in Delhi, transportation came to a halt in Kerala. In West Bengal, state government offices and educational institutions functioned normally after the chief minister Mamatha Banerjee warned that non-attendance would be treated as break in service.

While most of the public sector banks remained closed for the day, some of the banks functioned with skeleton services.

Most of the bus stations in major cities across India had witnessed scenes of stranded passengers with majority of public transport systems remaining out of service. (JUBS)