Telangana shutdown affects partners

A day-long shutdown in Telengana on 29th May saw the commerce of the city being paralyzed for more than 12-hours. The IT market of he region consequently was affected by the shutdown.

"We had to close our shops and it remained so for the entire day. I had to lose quite a number of customers and so does my other peers", says, KV Rao, of Computer Collection. The shutdown was called by TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao protesting the Centre's ordinance to hand over 200 villages of Telangana to Andhra Pradesh for Polavaram irrigation project.

Buses of state-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) went off the roads in all 10 districts including Hyderabad. Shops, hotels and business establishments were also shutdown in many parts of Telangana.

Bus services from Hyderabad to various destinations in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were suspended. The city services of the RTC in Hyderabad and Secunderabad were also hit, causing inconvenience to commuters.

"Though the state has been bifurcated I believe it would take some time before stability comes in this region. And unless there is stability not only IT but business and commerce as a whole will be influenced by such shutdown or political turmoil", opiates Vijay Rama Rao of Info Business Services. He lost business business worth rupees eight lakh due to the sudden shutdown in Telengana.

Kishan Tummala, of K Computers laments the fact that due to political whims and decisions it is partner's who are affected badly. "If such instability persists then what good bifurcation did?", ponders Tummala.

But partners hope that such turmoil will take another couple of years to die down. Till then such intermittent stagnation will keep affecting partner's business in Andhra Pradesh.