CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary K S Sripathi on Wednesday said normal life was not affected throughout the State due to the general strike called by some political parties.
Answering queries of mediapersons at the Secretariat, the Chief Secretary said as far as the government offices were concerned, more than 99 per cent of the employees attended duty. All modes of transport - bus, train and flights - remained unaffected.
Closure of shops was reported from the Coimbatore, Villupuram, Nagapattinam, Cuddalore and Kanchipuram disticts. In Chennai, 80 per cent of the shops were open. At 12 noon, around 500 persons, including a CPI MLA, were taken into custody in various parts of the State for different reasons including staging road roko.
The strike call was given by the Sri Lankan Tamils Protection Movement.
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