Recognition Of Vans Demanded
MALDA, 22 FEB: The Suci affiliated All India Utuc today held up traffic on different roads of the district demanding recognition of motorised three wheeler vans. “The administration must permit the motorised vans to legally transport passengers on state and national Highways”, demanded the agitators.
In another incident, the CPI-ML (Liberation) today blocked the N H 34 at two spots in Gazole and Old Malda for more than an hour in protest against the Centre’s decision to increase price of fertilizer by 10 per cent. They also demanded the state government should buy potato directly from the farmers at the Rs 600 per quintal to control the market price in off-season.
The Sara Bangla Motor Van Chalak Union today blocked NH34 at Rathbari for more than an hour under the banner of the Utuc. The agitators have decided to operate the motorised vans on national and State Highways from tomorrow.
Ignoring the Malda district administration’s decision taken on 16 February, to stop movement of such vans on the highway, the Suci Malda district secretary Mr Gopal Nandi said that we are making our last appeal today.
“From tomorrow the van operators, who had withdrawn the vehicles on 16 February, would start operating the vans again”, he declared threatening to block every police station in the district if the police seize one single van.
The Malda administration had decided to treat the motorised vans illegal after the authorised Passenger Vehicles’ Forum had threatened an indefinite strike unless the vans were withdrawn from the major thoroughfares. SNS
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