He saw a few autos parked outside the bus terminus, but none agreed to take him to the hospital as they were on strike. Commuters, especially office and college goers, were the worst sufferers of the strike. "We went on strike following a call by the All-Odisha Autorickshaw Drivers' Federation," said Shailen Dhala, Cuttack Autorickshaw Drivers' Association president. The federation had called for the strike to protest the new rules that bar them from carrying school students in large numbers. He said around 4 lakh people travel in autorickshaws in the state's urban areas, with another one lakh people in rural areas depend ant on auto-rickshaws.

Source: The Telegraph March 22, 2017 22:30 UTC