As many as 200 workers who were deployed at Mumbai-Pune Expressway and National highway IV are on strike for last two days, because of which the Highway police and other mechanisms are on their toes to handle the E-way. The workers union claimed that the strike is for an indefinite one as their contract will get over in August this year. In the meanwhile, the IRB and Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) keep shifting the blame on each other.

On the E-way, there are around 180 males and females who are working at the old Pune-Mumbai highway in different tasks like patrolling, maintenance, cleaning, office clerks, crash barring repair work, traffic handling, placing signboard and others.