kolhapur the indefinite strike by 400 staffers of kolhapur municipal transport kmt has been called off on the first day after the authorities gave inprinciple approval to the demands put up by the transport unioncivic administrator kadambari balkawade called a meeting in the afternoon after an hourlong deliberations between the civic authorities and transport union representatives it was decided to seek permission from the state government over the demands such as hiking the staffers salaries by implementing seventh pay commission making the daily wage staffers permanent and increasing their dearness allowance by 25sanjay inamdar kmts public relations officer said the demand will be put before the state government for approval before april 15 once approve the rest of the administrative processes will be carried out to meet the demandsmeanwhile no single kmt bus was on the streets on the first day of the strike called by the kmt staffersthe regular passengers mainly the students and workers travelling between rural areas and the city faced inconvenience due to the strike the students had to share autorickshaws or several of them had to walk long miles to reach the collegesimilarly the farmers who bring their produce to sell in the city by travelling in kmt buses were strandedthe autorickshaw drivers seems to be taking undue advantage of the strike the autodrivers were also charging more for sharing passengers and extra for the luggage if anythe senior citizen and the students get concession passes for daily travel they were the most affected due to the strike