India, Feb. 28 -- Transporters across Maharashtra have threatened to go on strike from midnight on March 5, warning that nearly 100,000 vehicles from across the state will converge at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) because their demands to rectify the e-challan system have been ignored.

At a meeting held on Friday, transport unions decided that heavy vehicles, autorickshaws, taxis and app-based aggregator cabs will gather at Azad Maidan. They said that the government has failed to stand by and implement the assurances it had given them about the e-challan system.

Office-bearers of the Maharashtra Transporters Action Committee said if the government fails to listen to their demands, they will shut down operations indefinitel...