vadodara the rough ride on several city roads may continue for citizens even in the coming days if the strike by blacktrap quarries continues the reason for the situation this time around is not civic authorities inefficiency but the strike by the quarries in the state that has started to impact development work and construction activitiesthe quarries have been on a strike since may 1 to press for their longpending demands besides mining and processing of new material the quarries have also stopped transportation of their existing material the vadodara municipal corporation vmc has been forced to rationalise the use of grit in wake of the shortage due to the strike it is now giving material from its hot mix plant only for work related to repair of potholes and also if roads are dug up for work on underground service lines executive engineer for roads in vmc rajesh chauhan said that the hot mix plants of the vmc as well as contractors had limited supply of grit at present the work done by the vmc as well as the contractors has suffered said chauhan the vmcs hot mix plant is providing material only for unavoidable work currently an official said that the civic body usually keeps stocks that last around one month however this has depleted now and if the issue is not sorted out soon there could be a crisis president of the vadodara chapter of the confederation of real estate developers associations of india credai mayank patel said that construction activity was suffering due to the strike builders mostly need concrete mix for slabs columns beams and foundation work other than these items is taking place right now to ensure that things do not come to a complete halt patel addedsecretary of gujarat blackstone quarry industries association gbqia amit suthar said that transportation of quarry stone and grit was a costly affair the contractors and builders rely on the nearest quarries since no quarry in the state is working it becomes expensive to bring material from other states and is thus affecting work he said suthar said that the state unit of credai and contractors associations understood their demands and have made representations to the state government