Participation in the strike has been massive all over India surpassing all past records. Activities in government offices, PSUs, banks, insurance other industrial and service sectors came to a standstill. Not less than 8 million state employees, state PSU employees, Zilla Parishad, Panchayet employees and Teachers joined this strike at the call of All India State Government Employees’ Federation. About 3 million Central employees, Civilian Defence and Defence Production employees, State Electricity Board employees and Financial sector employees also were on strike besides several million other Public Sector and Private Sector workers. In the central government sector, overwhelming section of employees in the telecom, postal departments, AG office, Income Tax and audit offices joined the strike in a big way throughout the country. About 80% of the defence sector employees working in ordinance factories and depots joined the strike. The strike was total in the entire financial sector as banks (including Reserve Bank of India - notwithstanding the threats from authorites) and insurance sector joined the strike. The total strikers in the country reached about 50 million mark. This was the biggest ever strike of the workers in the last 50 years. Employees and workers staged demonstrations and organised massive rallies throughout the country from Kashmir to Andamans Islands in the bay of Bengal. This strike action was precceded by nationwide campaign conducted by the convening central trade unions and federations. Strike Notice Day was also observed through huge rallies across the country. Through the strike the government employees gave a befitting reply to anti-strike ruling by Supreme Court. It is a new benchmark of emerging unity and growing level of consciousness of the employees notwithstanding the fact that in several places they had to brave government warning, police action, baton charge and arrests.