ludhiana the excise departments endeavour to control tax evasion by implementing the etrip policy did not work well with the industry while the members of over a dozen hosiery associations carried out a protest by burning the effigy of the government the states plywood industry went on a strike for three days since monday president of the hosiery association naveen sood informed that under the etrip policy the government had asked the industry to provide details of all the business transactions of over rs 50000 over the website of the excise department the industry is already facing a lot of problems and instead of helping us the government has now added to the problems by burdening us with this etrip policy if the government does not withdraw this notification of etrip till july 26 we would be left with no other option but to escalate our protest against the government added sood dal bazar merchant associations suresh dhir said that they just want a status quo and that the new notification of the government was totally uncalled for he added that if the government does not takes back its notification they would be forced to come out on the roads along with the employees and the labourers to protest harish kairpal finance secretary of the ludhiana knitwear club said efforts are already on to prevail upon the government and get them to withdraw the notification in case it does not happen this way then the industry would leave no stone unturned to get its demands accepted a large number of protestors from the industry gathered on madhopuri chowk at around 1130 am on monday they burnt the effigy of the punjab government and protested by marching towards the division no 3 police station and the chaura bazar markets people who participated in this protest march included general secretary of punjab pradesh beopar mandal sunil mehra bahadur ke hosiery associations rajesh jain president of yarn traders association radhay sham ahuja president of sundar nagar hosiery association ashok sama president of ludhiana retailors and hosiery manufacturers association ramesh garg president of katehra nohria hosiery association dinesh bazaj punjab oil traders associations sushil jain bahadur ke road textile association and many other associations