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500 trucks loaded with daily essential commodities stranded at Sibilong
Source: The Sangai Express
Jiribam, August 01 2019:
Around 500 trucks loaded with daily essential commodities are stranded at Sibilong and Barak area, All Jiribam Road Transport Drivers' Union (AJRTDU) said Thursday urging authorities concerned to give passage to the vehicles at the earliest.
Visiting the sites where the vehicles are holding, AJRTDU vice president M Pratap Meitei asserted that only oil tankers are being escorted to Imphal on priority ignoring other vehicles which are loaded with daily essential items such as rice, eggs, potatoes, grains and cement etc.
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The loaded vehicles have been stranded for almost a week and the drivers and handymen are facing many problems and inconvenience, said general secretary of the union L Maniton Singh appealing the authorities concerned to allow the vehicles to proceed towards Imphal at the earliest.
Many of the items such as potatoes and onions have gone bad/off, said the drivers expressing the hardship they have been enduring for the past few days.
They also condemned the authorities concerned and State Government for giving priority and providing escort to oil tankers which had arrived only yesterday.
The union members also met NHDCL Sr Engineer M Kalita Singh and CRPF officers during the visit.
The authorities have given them assurance to assist at the earliest, said the union.
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