In Tamil Nadu, the trade union strike has evoked poor response till now. All vehicles including government buses, private vehicles and autos are plying without any hindrance in all parts of the State like Tiruchirapalli, Madurai, Kanniyakumari and Salem. Government offices are working normally and schools are open. In Tiruchirapalli Divisional Railway office an emergency control room has been set up . Higher officials are monitoring the situation at Villupuram, Tiruvarur and Tiruvannamalai railway stations. RPF security has been provided to reservation offices and parcel offices. However, government buses and other vehicles are not plying near Kaliyikkaviula at the Tamil Nadu-Kerala border.

There has been mixed reaction to the call for Bharat Bandh in Karnataka.The reports of shops and business establishments remaining closed have been received from different parts of the state.Private schools and colleges have declared holiday for the two-day bandh. Banks are also closed for the day. Different unions of autorickshaws and taxis have declared their support for the bandh. In Bangalore, policemen are deployed in public places to avert any kind of untoward incident. Police sources say that 17,000 police personnel are deployed to maintain law and order in Bangalore. Our Correspondent adds that except for minor incidents of rasta roko and protest march, the situation remains peaceful in most parts of the state.

There is a mixed response to the call for a two-day strike by trade unions in Rajasthan. Banking and public transport services are affected due to the strike. Most bank branches are closed but ATMs are working in the state.

In West Bengal, the two-day bandh called by the trade union has evoked little response on the first day. Train services of the Eastern and South Eastern railways are normal. Flight operations at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose international air port, activities at tea gardens in North Bengal and in ports are also normal.
Our Kolkata Correspondent reports that most of the big markets are opened. However educational institutions are closed. Attendance in government offices is near normal. Government owned buses are also plying as usual but private transport is running in lesser number. People's turn out on the road are also very thin. No major untowered incidents has so far been reported.

Normal life was completely thrown out of gear in Kerala, following the 48 hour strike called by trade unions.
Shops and business establishments remained closed while public transport vehicles remained off the road. Only a few private vehicles including two wheelers were seen on the roads. Offices recorded thin attendance.
Industrial production in the state's commercial capital Kochi was badly hit. However, the strike did not affect work at the public sector Kochi Refineries. The Cochin Shipyard recorded just 40 per cent attendance. Movement of goods to and from the Cochin port was badly affected.
Supporters of the strike blocked vehicles and forcibly closed shops at some places. Except sporadic incidents of stone pelting at some places no untoward incident has been reported so far.

In Andhra Pradesh, transport and coal sectors have been hit due to the 48-hour long general strike by trade unions. However, the strike evoked poor response in urban areas of the state. Coal production in the state owned Singareni collieries has been considerably hit as several workers boycotted work in four districts. About 80 thousand workers have not turned up to their duties in coal mines in Karimnagar, Adilabad, Khammam and Warangal districts. Transport services are also partially affected mainly in Districts with about 40 thousand employees of the state owned Road Transport Corporation-APSRTC taking part in the strike. However, many of the city buses are plying normal in Hyderabad . The South Central Railway is also running additional services of local trains for the convenience of people in the state capital.
Political parties like Telangana Rastra Samithi have extended support to the strike and called upon their cadres to cooperate for the strike.

Normal banking operations have been hit today as employees of public sector banks went on a two-day strike in response to a call given by central trade unions to press for wage hike in the backdrop of rising inflation.
Meanwhile,banks have taken steps to ensure that public do not face problems at least on the cash front during the strike period.Banks have fed additional cash in ATMs to meet the cash needs of their customers.Yesterday ,finance ministry had appealed to the banks to not to go on strike as there was no apparent reason for that.Bank unions are pressing for early wage revision of employees, which they said is due from November 2012. They are also opposing banking sector reforms and any plan for merger of banks.There are 26 public sector banks with employees strength of around 10 lakh. In December 2012 also, four bank unions went on strike opposing amendments carried out in Banking Regulation Act and Banking Companies Act, enabling foreign equity in public sector banks.The bank strike is part of a general strike call given by 11 central trade unions including Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC), All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC),Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and All India United Trade Union Centre.