Silchar, Aug. 30: Residents blocked the extension of National Highway 54 running through this town for 12 hours from 6am today to protest against the dilapidated condition of the road.
The blockade, organised by New Silchar Jana Jagaran Manch, drew out hundreds of people onto the streets. The protest was peaceful though nearly 200 volunteers, including many students of a college in the area, courted arrest, police said.
The blockade, organised by New Silchar Jana Jagaran Manch, drew out hundreds of people onto the streets. The protest was peaceful though nearly 200 volunteers, including many students of a college in the area, courted arrest, police said.
The blockade on the take-off point of the 2.5km extension of the highway disrupted passenger vehicles plying from Cachar to neighbouring Mizoram.
The movement of essential goods to Mizoram from this town has been stalled for the past four days with the All Cachar Truck Owners Association going on a lightning strike on Wednesday to protest against the “shabby state” of the Cachar stretch of NH-54.
Manch president Mrinmoy Nath alleged “indifference” on the part of the district administration in taking the initiative to restore this all-important road which runs through the business hub of this town.
He said Cachar deputy commissioner Goutam Ganguli had failed to fulfil his promise of pressing the Border Roads Organisation and the PWD division of the Union transport and national highways ministry to repair the highway.
Nath said Ganguli had promised to take the initiative when manch activists had demonstrated before his office on August 21. source: telegraph india
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